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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Five and Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the presidential election, Ben begins to construct useful objects out of what material?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Wood.
(c) Metal.
(d) Paper.

2. When Margot uses her story in Chapter Six to ask her students about the "core delusion," (205) what does she say it is?
(a) She does not say.
(b) She says it is courage.
(c) She says it is the self.
(d) She says it is suffering.

3. When Lizzie forces Henry to lie down in Chapter Three, how much time does it take for him to fall asleep?
(a) 3 seconds.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 30 seconds.
(d) 2 minutes.

4. Lizzie describes her texts with which character as "scrupulously chaste" (185)?
(a) Ben.
(b) Henry.
(c) Will.
(d) Sylvia.

5. Lizzie enjoys the fact that Will does not mind if she talks endlessly about what subject?
(a) Psychiatry.
(b) Zazen.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Eli.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lizzie kneels by her bed in Chapter Six and prays "the oldest and best of prayers," (209) which she names as what?

2. Lizzie first notices the handsome man in the green coat while she is using what form of transportation?

3. What is NOT something Lizzie names when Will asks her about her fears?

4. Lizzie reports that Eli's elementary school is made up of ten percent white children. What term does she use to describe most of the rest of the students there?

5. Sylvia decides to move to "the darkest place in America," (151) which reportedly is located in which state?

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