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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Pain Tours (I)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the second section in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) "Indigenous to the Hood."
(b) "La Plata Perdida."
(c) "Sublime, Revisited."
(d) "San Ysidro."

2. Who wrote "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick" (37)?
(a) Susan Sontag.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Adam Smith.

3. Who in "La Frontera" is described as "the Stewmaker" that dissolves his victims in acid?
(a) El Pozolero.
(b) El Teo.
(c) El Diablo.
(d) El Chapo.

4. What is the capital of Sinaloa?
(a) Guadalajara.
(b) Merida.
(c) Cancun.
(d) Culiacan.

5. Where does one take the bus after landing in El Alto in order to reach the highest city in the world?
(a) Sucre.
(b) La Paz.
(c) Tarja.
(d) Ororu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What program on the internet does the author describe where you can generate your own fairy tale?

2. 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)?

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

4. What does the author describe winning in the conference lottery in "Devil's Bait"?

5. Who is described as the tour guide for the silver mines in "Pain Tours (I)"?

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