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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lost Boys" - "Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of movies does the author describe being popular on the buses to the highest city in the world in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) Woody Allen movies.
(b) Jean-Claude Van Damme movies.
(c) Cowboy and Indian movies.
(d) Stephen Segall movies.

2. For how long does the author say she's been corresponding with Charlie Engle when she goes to see him in prison in "Fog Count"?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 2 years.

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

4. What does the maid steal from her mistress to eat every night in Madame Bovary?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Cookies.
(c) Apples.
(d) Mints.

5. How many entrants are allowed to run in the Barkley Marathons each year?
(a) 65.
(b) 35.
(c) 100.
(d) 125.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first section of "Pain Tours (II)"?

2. Who is the president that the tour guide speaks of in "Pain Tours (I)"?

3. Where was the bar that the author went to after she was attacked in "Morphology of the Hit"?

4. Who is the maid in Madame Bovary?

5. Where did Charlie Engle's teenage sons live when he was imprisoned?

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