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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Café Mort" and "Boston Common at Twilight".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 31 of "Occupied," what event is alluded to in the sentence, "If you'd been in New York, you had your story"?
(a) The 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest.
(b) The 2001 World Trade Center bombing.
(c) The 2017 Women's March.
(d) The 2008 Times Square bombing.

2. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what does Ned like about staying with his aunt?
(a) She is the only one who will talk about his mother.
(b) His uncle Rob's collection of sports memorabilia.
(c) The food and the television.
(d) The lack of rules.

3. In "Polepole," who is Cecily?
(a) This is Daisy's real name.
(b) "The man's" wife.
(c) "The man's" servant's wife.
(d) Bragg's boss.

4. In "Polepole," what reason does Daisy give for being in Africa?
(a) She has always wanted to help the people of Africa.
(b) It is where her grandparents are from.
(c) She could not relate to her home town in Connecticut.
(d) It is where the company she works for sent her.

5. On page 27 of "The Torch," what detail implies that the woman is dying?
(a) The woman's "sharp bird-look."
(b) "Her face had lost most of its flesh."
(c) The woman saying she wants to swim "In lovely cold water."
(d) "Her eyelids were low and her black eyes looked elsewhere."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Why I Don't Write," what feeling does the narrator say "used to have a ragged pain, sometimes wafty, sometimes sharp as needles" (70)?

2. In "Polepole," what does his servant's wife call "the man"?

3. In "Polepole," what tribal people does the gate guard belong to?

4. At the end of "Café Mort," what question does Rita ask the narrator on page 101?

5. In "Why I Don't Write," what does the narrator have a dream about?

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