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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do baby bird's parents take their anger out on?
(a) The other children.
(b) Worms.
(c) The people standing beneath them.
(d) Each other.

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

3. What, according to Cassandra, does the human race rely on?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) Clarity.

4. What does Edwin H. Friedman claim "real figures of speech" are based on?
(a) Smiles.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Attitudes.
(d) Similies.

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

6. How does the person the man encounters on the bridge feel the man is acting?
(a) Selfish.
(b) Silly.
(c) Angry.
(d) Stupid.

7. What does the man in "The Power of Belief," try to convince people of?
(a) He is smart.
(b) He is wealthy.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is a horse.

8. In what season does the holly die for the first time?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Fall.

9. What happens to the person the man encounters on the bridge?
(a) She marries.
(b) He dies.
(c) He is a ghost.
(d) She finds her mother.

10. What do the lamb's friends say about her fear?
(a) She is silly.
(b) She has a right to be scared.
(c) She is stupid.
(d) She must know a lot about shears.

11. How does baby bird feel at the end of "Soaring"?
(a) Scared.
(b) Bitter.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

12. Who is Faust?
(a) A carpet salesman.
(b) A hunter.
(c) A man who sold his soul to the devil.
(d) A poet.

13. What does the man in ""An American Holly" promise to do after he returns from a trip with his family?
(a) Burn the plant.
(b) Rip out the plant.
(c) Buy a dog.
(d) Buy a new plant.

14. Who is Oedipus?
(a) A bar keeper.
(b) A painter.
(c) A man who kills his father.
(d) A teacher.

15. When, in "Projection", do Billy's parents decide to take him to a doctor?
(a) When he refuses to eat vegetables.
(b) When he draws spilled organs.
(c) When he is in a car accident.
(d) When he is expelled.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of "The Power of Belief", what does the dead man claim?

2. What does Cassandra argue is the fundamental aspect of human existence?

3. Where does Oedipus go at the end of the Interlude?

4. What does Cassandra believe people should do instead of seek answers?

5. Why is John shocked at his wife's behavior at the end of "Nervous Condition"?

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