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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After driving for awhile, the character in "Hill Country" gets out and walks along a limestone bank, noticing what?
(a) There is no one there.
(b) The steepness of its incline.
(c) How the bank is eroding.
(d) The nature and wildlife around him.

2. Of what do the memories of this "Garden of Eden" remind the speaker?
(a) College life.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her childhood.
(d) Brooklyn and being in her thirties.

3. What does the speaker in "The Angels" hope some angels are?
(a) Children.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Her friends.
(d) Straight up thugs.

4. What does the character in "Hill Country" stave off in regard to the injured animal?
(a) Further injury.
(b) Death.
(c) Attack by vultures.
(d) Fear.

5. How are the angels described in "The Angels"?
(a) Poor and in rags.
(b) Grizzled and in leather bike gear.
(c) Much like most of humanity.
(d) White and glittering.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?

2. What causes the speaker in "Wade in the Water" painful grief?

3. In "Garden of Eden," the speaker reflects on the fact that everyone she knew at the time was living a similar life that included hating what two things?

4. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?

5. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?

(see the answer key)

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