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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What image do baby bird's parents want to project in "Soaring"?
(a) Good parents.
(b) Run down parents.
(c) Lazy workers.
(d) Harsh disciplinarians.

4. What does the author suggest is the issue with communicating at the start of Part 2?
(a) Egos.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Technology.
(d) Demons.

5. What does Billy like to cut up in "Projection"?
(a) His toys.
(b) His clothes.
(c) His homework.
(d) His steak.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Cassandra?

3. What animal is the moth confused by in "Round in Circles"?

4. What does the doctor do to the man in "The Power of Belief"?

5. What is the lamb's friends' advice at the end of ""The Friendly Forest"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the conclusion of the report in "Raising Cain: A Case History of the First Family"?

2. How does the interlude end?

3. What does Faust argue is the best way for humans to find truth?

4. How does the man's attitude in "An American Holly" change from beginning to end?

5. What advice does the moth give the fly in "Round in Circles"? Why should the moth follow his own advice?

6. What finally convinces baby bird to leave the nest?

7. How is John treated by others in "Nervous Condition" and why?

8. What is Edwin H. Friedman's relationship to his characters?

9. Why does the man on the rope in "The Bridge" think the first man is being selfish?

10. What does the report in "Raising Cain: A Case History of the First Family" study?

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