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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lawyer's League".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Corliss's father and uncles feel about poetry?
(a) They hate poetry.
(b) They love to set poetry to music.
(c) They like only Native American poetry.
(d) They love poetry.

2. What does Richard imagine at the end of "Lawyer's League"?
(a) Defending his fight with Bill at a press conference.
(b) Winning a basketball championship.
(c) Marriage to Theresa.
(d) Being President of the U.S.

3. Which of the following statements does not describe what Corliss learns about Harlan Atwater when she finally meets him face to face?
(a) He never lived on a reservation.
(b) He is a fake.
(c) He was raised by white adoptive parents, not Indians.
(d) He lived everything he wrote in his poems.

4. What does Corliss want to buy the white woman she encounters at the Student Union?
(a) College textbooks.
(b) Poetry books.
(c) Sandwiches and ice cream.
(d) A winter coat.

5. What school does Corliss attend?
(a) Washington State University.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard know about the other basketball players from lunchtime games with them?

2. How old is Corliss in "The Search Engine"?

3. Which of the following is not a way Corliss gets a prep school education in high school without attending an expensive prep school?

4. How does Corliss pay for the SAT-prep course that won her a dozen academic scholarships for college?

5. What happens when Corliss calls Harlan Atwater on the phone?

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