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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Fog Count".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade"?
(a) Jim Fyke.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) John Irving.
(d) David Foster Wallace.

2. When did Andrew Thompson finally complete the Barkley Marathons?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

3. Where is Lenny said to be from in "Devil's Bait"?
(a) Texas.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Arkansas.

4. 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) Adam Smith.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Susan Sontag.
(d) Thomas Huxley.

5. Where is Andrew Thompson said to be from in "The Immortal Horizon"?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Vermont.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Being a spectator of calamaties taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience" (87)?

2. How many subjects were investigated for the study "Clinical, Epidemiologic, Histopathologic and Molecular Features of an Unexplained Dermopathy"?

3. Who designed and built Watts Towers?

4. What did the tour guide for the Gang Tour call the rats in prison?

5. What is the first section of "Pain Tours (I)" titled?

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