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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Frida Kahlo when she married Diego Rivera?
(a) 22.
(b) 27.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

2. Where did John Price say he was going to run to from Venice Beach to celebrate his retirement the following year in "The Immortal Horizon"?
(a) Atlantic City.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Virginia Beach.
(d) Mexico City.

3. What does the author assert James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is ultimately about, in "Pain Tours (II)"?
(a) Love.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Glory.
(d) Revenge.

4. When did James Earl Ray escape from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary?
(a) June 11, 1977.
(b) July 2, 1978.
(c) March 2, 1975.
(d) May 12, 1976.

5. Who wrote the 1979 op-ed called "In Defense of Sentimentality"?
(a) Jim Fyke.
(b) Edmund Burke.
(c) John Irving.
(d) David Foster Wallace.

6. When was Charlie convicted, according to the author in "Fog Count"?
(a) May, 2008.
(b) October, 2010.
(c) June, 2009.
(d) September, 2011.

7. When were Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera married?
(a) September 1, 1927.
(b) August 21, 1929.
(c) July 4, 1863.
(d) March 12, 1925.

8. Who once said, "You are a little soul carrying around a corpse" (113)?
(a) Aeschelus.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Epicetus.

9. Who wrote "Tragedy is second-hand" (157), according to the author in "Pain Tours (II)"?
(a) James Wood.
(b) Susan Sontag.
(c) John Irving.
(d) William Faulkner.

10. When did Fortune magazine tell Agee to write a journalistic piece about sharecroppers in the Deep South, according to the author in "Pain Tours (II)"?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1936.

11. How old was Diego Rivera when he married Frida Kahlo?
(a) 51.
(b) 43.
(c) 29.
(d) 49.

12. Who is said to have completed the Barkley Marathon that the author attended in "The Immortal Horizon"?
(a) Julian.
(b) JB.
(c) Blake.
(d) Roger.

13. What is the title of the second section in "Lost Boys"?
(a) "The Case."
(b) "San Ysidro."
(c) "Ex-Votos."
(d) "Sublime, Revisited."

14. The number of inmates in West Virginia is how many times the number in 1990?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

15. Who wrote Madame Bovary and is quoted in the opening in of "In Defense of Saccharin(e)"?
(a) Edmund Burke.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Gustave Flaubert.
(d) Adam Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charlie hit bottom, getting shots at by angry dealers, according to the narrative in "Fog Count"?

2. Who wrote "The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade"?

3. Where is Carl said to be from in "The Immortal Horizon"?

4. What is the title of the fourth section in "Lost Boys"?

5. What Nazi commander is described as having wept at an opera staged by concentraton camp prisoners in "In Defense of Saccharin(e)"?

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