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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Allen considering in "On Seeing a Tree in Summer"?
(a) The beauty of the deciduous forest.
(b) The best time of year to plant trees.
(c) Which trees are better than others.
(d) The motivations and characteristics of a tree.

2. What does the doctor want to do to the strangler?
(a) Put him in jail for life.
(b) Throw him off a very tall building.
(c) Dissect him down to the last chromosome.
(d) Give him a taste of this own medicine.

3. Which insect does one of the women in "The Predators" fall in love with?
(a) A dung beetle.
(b) A dragonfly.
(c) A daddy long legs spider.
(d) A common housefly.

4. What word is repeated in the scrolls that is possible evidence that they are forgeries?
(a) Britney Spears.
(b) Oldsmobile.
(c) Rotor tiller.
(d) Hollywood.

5. Why does Sigmund go to secretarial school?
(a) To learn shorthand.
(b) To earn his law degree.
(c) To impress Justine.
(d) Because it was prophesied.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does Allen come to in "On Tripping Through a Copse Picking Violets"?

2. What curse is put on Yvette in "The Spell"?

3. What is Dmitri?

4. What type of civil disobedience involves shouting slogans and signs?

5. What is the name of Mrs. Sanstad's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does the narrator compare Allen's play to and what excuse does the narrator give for there being no later plays?

2. What does the reader derive about ghosts or spirits by reading "Examining Psychic Phenomena"?

3. How does Flossie try to blackmail Word?

4. What advice does Allen offer in "On Frugality"?

5. What does Kaiser find when he arrives at Hunter College Book Store?

6. What is the story of the young woman and the housefly in "The Predators"?

7. What does Kleinman learn about the killer as he speaks to him? What does Kleinman suggest to the killer?

8. What does the shepherd find in the caves and what do experts think of this discovery?

9. How do the oppressors and oppressed behave?

10. What do "On Seeing a Tree in Summer" and "On Tripping Through a Copse Picking Violets" seem to cover or determine?

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