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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the tour guide for the Gang Tour call the rats in prison?
(a) Freeway Freddies.
(b) Toe Nibblers.
(c) Cellblock Roaches.
(d) Slick Sammies.

2. How old was Stephanie Phillips's character when her father died, according to her script in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

3. By what name does the author refer to the doctor who performed her heart operation in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) Dr. J.
(b) Dr. G.
(c) Dr. M.
(d) Dr. R.

4. Who defines "exoticism" as an experience that "posits the lure of difference while protecting its practitioners from close involvement" (85)?
(a) Graham Huggan.
(b) Vladimir Propp.
(c) Edmund Burke.
(d) Susan Sontag.

5. Who is the tour guide on the Gang Tour who is named after a zodiac sign in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) Virgo.
(b) Capricorn.
(c) Aries.
(d) Leo.

6. What term from "Devil's Bait" refers to a sensation like insects crawling over one's skin?
(a) Formication.
(b) Ratification.
(c) Elocution.
(d) Endocation.

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

8. When did the CDC release the results of the study "Clinical, Epidemiologic, Histopathologic and Molecular Features of an Unexplained Dermopathy"?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2018.

9. What does the author say there was nothing of in the attack when she was punched in "Morphology of the Hit"?
(a) Deliberation.
(b) Deception.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Empathy.

10. How old was Andrea when she was raped, according to the narrative in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) 14.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

11. Who was Stephanie Phillips's brother that drowned, according to her script in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) Jack.
(b) Will.
(c) Adam.
(d) Jason.

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

13. What is described in "Pain Tours (I)" as a disease one calls "the uniting of dust in the lungs" (81)?
(a) Silicosis.
(b) Legionaire's.
(c) Tachycardia.
(d) Morgellons.

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

15. How far along is Leslie in her pregnancy in the script she presents for herself in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) 7 and 1/2 weeks.
(b) 5 and 1/2 weeks.
(c) 6 and 1/2 weeks.
(d) 3 and 1/2 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far is Mexicali from Tijuana?

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

3. What word from "The Empathy Exams" refers to the theory that the self is all that can be known to exist?

4. To whom did the author give her lottery prize at the conference for Morgellons disease in "Devil's Bait"?

5. Where does the author describe seeing an ex-boyfriend who offered her a line of coke on someone's steamer trunk in "Morphology of the Hit"?

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