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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does baby bird feel towards his parents in "Soaring"?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sad.
(c) Scared.
(d) Resentful.

2. What do Faust and Oedipus discuss in the Interlude?
(a) Literature.
(b) Fish.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Women.

3. Who does the man encounter in "The Bridge" when he crosses the bridge?
(a) A young child.
(b) His father.
(c) A man with a rope around his chest.
(d) A woman crying.

4. What does the person whom the man encounters on the bridge ask him to do?
(a) Find her mother.
(b) Embrace him.
(c) Get her a hanky.
(d) Hold the rope.

5. Why does the man in "An American Holly" move the plant?
(a) It belongs in the trash.
(b) It is blocking the TV.
(c) It needs more space.
(d) It needs sunlight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to John's nervous condition at the end of the story?

2. What does baby bird discover one morning upon waking?

3. What do baby bird and his parents ultimately fight for in "Soaring"?

4. Who is Cassandra?

5. What is John's nervous condition?

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