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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "La Frontera".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of avant-garde poetry is Marco described as being interested in, in "La Frontera"?
(a) Modernist poetry.
(b) Broadside poetry.
(c) Flarf poetry.
(d) Beat poetry.

2. What Shakespearean play does the author reference in relation to her infection by a human botfly in "Devil's Bait"?
(a) Othello.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

3. What is El Chapo's nickname?
(a) Stewmaker.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Shorty.
(d) Pirate.

4. What "is the clinical name for shared delusions" (36)?
(a) Laurie a deux.
(b) Articulate reasoning.
(c) Omniscient hallucinations.
(d) Folie a deux.

5. What nineteenth-century biologist is quoted in "Devil's Bait" with the words, "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing" (55)?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) Susan Sontag.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Paola's profession said to be in "La Frontera"?

2. What was Leslie's brother diagnosed with while in Sweden, according to her narrative in "The Empathy Exams"?

3. What is the opening line for the character of Stephanie Phillips, according to the narrative in "The Empathy Exams" (11)?

4. Who was Stephanie Phillips's brother that drowned, according to her script in "The Empathy Exams"?

5. How old does Leslie describe herself when she wanted to end her pregnancy in "The Empathy Exams"?

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