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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Can I Get a Witness?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man in "Can I Get a Witness?" advise the only person he can get on the phone to do?
(a) Quit his job.
(b) Help rescue people from the bombing site.
(c) Help him get the woman to a hospital.
(d) Make free pizza for rescue workers.

2. Which of the following statements describes Richard's mother?
(a) An African American lawyer.
(b) A white college basketball player.
(c) A Spokane Indian poet.
(d) A petite Spokane Indian ballerina.

3. At the dinner Richard attends, who does he think he could take home, sleep with, and abandon?
(a) A black woman at his table.
(b) The Democrat wife.
(c) Teresa.
(d) An Indian woman at his table.

4. What is the woman who is the main character of "Can I Get a Witness?" doing at the beginning of the story?
(a) Taking her child to school.
(b) Working at a law firm.
(c) Eating lunch at a restaurant.
(d) Having an affair.

5. When Corliss searches for information about Harlan Atwater, what does she find out from the Spokane Indian tribe?
(a) Nothing, no one has ever heard of him.
(b) Atwater is an alcoholic.
(c) His father was also a poet.
(d) Atwater is from a large and well known Spokane family.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Can I Get a Witness?", where does the woman ask the man to take her?

2. Which of the following statements does not describe how the woman has fantasized she would behave if she had been caught in the Twin Towers on September 11th?

3. Which of the following is not a way Corliss gets a prep school education in high school without attending an expensive prep school?

4. What kind of lawyer is Bill?

5. How does Corliss pay for the SAT-prep course that won her a dozen academic scholarships for college?

(see the answer key)

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