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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the man steps back and falls down. He then describes what?
(a) A time he beat up a homeless man asleep at a train station.
(b) His ill wife.
(c) A time he slept outside a station and was woken up by someone urinating on him; he was then beaten with a metal rod.
(d) A time he used to care about others.

2. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?
(a) So he can call out the windows to passersby.
(b) So he can smell the fresh air.
(c) So he can air out his smelly jeep.
(d) So he can feel the branches as they brush against the vehicle and himself.

3. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?
(a) Freeing their slaves so quickly with no financial support.
(b) Not paying their slaves an honest wage.
(c) What they think of slaves and their capabilities.
(d) What they have done to the people they have enslaved and mistreated so terribly.

4. In "4 ½," when this little girl is hungry, what does she have?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Only yogurt.
(c) Crackers.
(d) Specific food requests.

5. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” why does a wife ask her husband to send for her?
(a) She does not know where he is.
(b) She is unable to leave her mistress.
(c) She is still a slave.
(d) She does not have the money to get to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” there is a collection of addresses to various people. What is the purpose of this collection?

2. In "4 ½," the little girl is compared to what?

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a person says that a woman pulled something from her head and told her what?

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a man pretends to do what?

5. In “Watershed,” who was employed at the factory and subsequently sold land to the factory?

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