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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Oates reflecting on and comparing in "They All Just Went Away"?
(a) Beef verses chicken.
(b) A cat and dog.
(c) A house and a home.
(d) Her three children.

2. What does Williams say about deer being overpopulated in "The Killing Game"?
(a) They breed too much.
(b) They eat too much.
(c) Deer are only overpopulated because they killed the wolves that hunt them.
(d) They are overpopulated because of a fertilizer farmers use.

3. Why do the hunters hunt according to Williams in "The Killing Game"?
(a) To stop over population of animals.
(b) For decoration in their house.
(c) To eat dinner.
(d) To help people that hit deer with their car.

4. What is Williams discussing in her essay, "The Killing Game"?
(a) Hunting verses gaming.
(b) How America is suffering from Global Warming.
(c) She denounces the cruelty of modern hunting.
(d) She is an activist for animal rights.

5. Who outlined the exception to the first amendment in "Shouting Fire!"?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

6. What assumption are all rights based on in "What's Wrong With Animal Rights"?
(a) The ability to read.
(b) The ability to be pleased.
(c) The ability to suffer.
(d) The ability to smell.

7. How is Kincaid different from most other Antiguans in "On Seeing England for the First Time"?
(a) She was not tan like other Antiguans.
(b) She loved England unlike others.
(c) She hated England unlike others.
(d) She had an English accent.

8. What is Updike comparing in "The Disposable Rocket"?
(a) Ice creams.
(b) Texas barbeque and Memphis barbeque.
(c) Male bodies to female bodies.
(d) Cats and dogs.

9. What does Queenan say people think about an education from a top-tier school will provide in "Matriculation Fixation"?
(a) The chance to become famous.
(b) Better education than a junior college.
(c) Encourages motivation.
(d) The guarantee of a successful job.

10. What is the goal of utilitarianism according to Singer in "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"?
(a) To increase the amount of happiness.
(b) To motivate art appreciation.
(c) To make people want to work.
(d) To make everything have a purpose.

11. What ethical system is Singer addressing in "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Transcendentalism.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Utilitarianism .

12. What was the verdict on the dry foods taste in "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch"?
(a) It was tasteless.
(b) It was beef flavored.
(c) It was oat flavored.
(d) It was cold.

13. What was Kincaid taught to think in "On Seeing England for the First Time"?
(a) That she was English.
(b) That she had a weird accent.
(c) That English things were better than Antiguan.
(d) That England was Antigua's sister country.

14. What does Wills NOT mention as a way of using the death penalty in "The Dramaturgy of Death"?
(a) Burning at the stake.
(b) Lynching.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Quartering.

15. What does Dickerson think Johnny's assailant is doing in "Who Shot Johnny?"
(a) Being ignorant to people who love him.
(b) Bringing down the house.
(c) Bringing down the entire black community.
(d) Bringing down all the kids in the neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kincaid say about England in "On Seeing England for the First Time"?

2. What does Updike say about the male in "The Disposable Rocket"?

3. What type of experience does Lopez have when he examines the stone horse in "The Stone Horse"?

4. What does Conroy realize after meeting with Judge Hand in "Think About It"?

5. Whose rights is Hearne defending in "What's Wrong With Animal Rights?"?

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