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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mr. and Mrs. Martins, Di Grasso, The Street-Sweeping Show, Courtly Vision, The Model.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the older Maori tribesman tell the younger men they would be better off fishing with in At the River?
(a) Spears.
(b) Arrows.
(c) Hooks.
(d) Guns.

2. What does Freddie explain her biological father is in An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?
(a) Austrian.
(b) French.
(c) Black.
(d) Latino.

3. From where is the author of House Opposite?
(a) United States.
(b) Germany.
(c) India.
(d) Switzerland.

4. In what school grade is the narrator of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Third.

5. Who wrote the story Mr. and Mrs. Martins?
(a) Denis Hirson.
(b) Doris Lessing.
(c) Ron Carlson.
(d) Edna Van Steen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Iguana Hunting, a boy goes to the country to visit his cousin Chidra and who?

2. What is the name of the English lord's daughter in The Blue Jar?

3. Who runs the opera troupe in Di Grasso?

4. From what country does the story Gregory come?

5. The author of Love, Your Only Mother hails from where?

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