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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, Betting on the Dust Commander.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Elements of Style," Parks incorporates diagrams illustrating how some of her works function as what?
(a) Postmodernist identities.
(b) Methodical melodramas.
(c) Grammatical symbols.
(d) Mathematical equations.

2. What word refers to that made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous?
(a) Superior.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Distinguished.
(d) Presidential.

3. What does Charlene complain the apartment is infested with in scene "C" of "Snails"?
(a) Cockroaches.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Mice.
(d) Rats.

4. The speakers in "Third Kingdom" reveal aspects of their dreams, many of which refer to what?
(a) Secret obsessions.
(b) Past failures.
(c) An other Self.
(d) Their reality.

5. Who is worried about how to take care of the dresses of her two dolls in scene "B" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?
(a) Betty.
(b) Muffy.
(c) Buffy.
(d) Sally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mare urge Lucius to do in scene "B" of "Betting on the Dust Commander"?

2. Who is speaking in scene "D" of "Snails"?

3. What refers to the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement?

4. In scene "B" of "Betting on the Dust Commander," Mare suggests that she and Lucius have children, as they have neither what?

5. Who describes how important it is for everyone in the family to have a clean, pressed appearance in scene "B" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?

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