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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 149 - 188).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of services does the spa in the gated community in Naples offer that cause consternation among some residents?
(a) Plastic surgery.
(b) Illegal drug administration.
(c) Fortune telling.
(d) Sexual services.

2. What is the name of the unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the story "Baby Arm"?
(a) Jed.
(b) Willy.
(c) Alvarez.
(d) Gus.

3. Why does the narrator in the story "A Pat" seek out desperate people to help?
(a) She does many other bad things, so she feels the need to balance them with acts of charity.
(b) Her mother once told her to look for ugly, hopeless people to make friends with.
(c) She is mandated as part of her parole agreement to do community service.
(d) Her father told her to be kind to people.

4. What does a crazy woman bring to her child's school for a snack that another mother does not like in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) Fruit roll-ups.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Peanut butter.

5. What specific kind of reality television do the couple at 1217 Ridgewood Road like to watch?
(a) Survivor.
(b) Hoarders.
(c) The Bachelor.
(d) Extreme obesity and weight-loss shows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alvarez imagine his daughter's name will be?

2. How does Jack get to Milly's apartment?

3. What is Rebekah doing when Father Minty calls her to come see him after dinner with his mother at the end of "Bad Priest"?

4. What kind of car does William Livingston III drive?

5. Why does Elsie Moreau not want to associate with the new neighbors who are also from Haiti?

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