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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. Where did the author attend elementary and high school?
(a) New Hope, Pennsylvania.
(b) Trenton, New Jersey.
(c) Levittown, Pennsylvania.
(d) New Brunswick, New Jersey.

2. What was tested on Vertus Hardiman?
(a) Radiation.
(b) The polio vaccine.
(c) Asbestos.
(d) The flu vaccine.

3. Who wrote the book of essays titled Proxies?
(a) Brian Blanchfield.
(b) C.D. Wright.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Ben Lerner.

4. Who wrote New Jim Crow?
(a) Ben Lerner.
(b) Derek Walcott.
(c) Michelle Alexander.
(d) Jena Osman.

5. Where is the author's house that he describes in "Among the Rewards of My Sloth..."?
(a) Bloomington, Indiana.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) New York, New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie about the Supreme Court case that banned the ban on interracial marriage does the author describe in "Weirdly Untitled"?

2. Who wrote the book The Hatred of Poetry?

3. What friend does the author describe meeting in "Hickories"?

4. Who recorded the song "Stay" that is part of the title of an essay in the book?

5. What food does the author describe eating in his recurring dreams in "Inefficiency"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What central symbolism is seen in "Lily on the Pants"? What does it represent?

2. What are the author's rituals he describes in "Airplane Rituals"?

3. What is meant by "TEMPORAL ALLEGIANCE" (107) in "Stacking Delights"?

4. What delight does the author discover in "Umbrella in the Cafe"?

5. What literary references and allusions are made in "Writing by Hand"? What is their significance?

6. How does the author describe his audience in "Weirdly Untitled"?

7. What animal is described in "Not Only..."? Where is it described?

8. What delights are described by the author in "Among the Rewards of My Sloth..."?

9. How does the author describe the bellhop in "Beast Mode"?

10. How would you describe the narrative style in "My Birthday, Kinda"?

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