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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Malison react when he discovers the master's writing class is reading O'Flannery in "After Malison"?
(a) With confusion
(b) With admiration
(c) With condescension
(d) With disgust

2. What does Don do to Mrs. Toni when she ridicules his dreams of stardom in "Don's Story"?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He pokes her with a bathroom key.
(c) He asks the bus driver to pull over so she can leave the bus.
(d) He stabs her with a switchblade.

3. In "We Get Along", what does Evelyne encourage her son to do next time he sees Mrs. Spakey, his former teacher?
(a) Insult her
(b) Ask her to call his mother
(c) Tell her his father is dead
(d) Ask her about his grade

4. Why is the narrator of "Jamboree" staying with his sister?
(a) He is looking for a new apartment.
(b) His father threw him out.
(c) He cannot afford to rent his own apartment.
(d) He is protecting his sister.

5. What do the siblings find in sealed boxes after their mother dies in "Barrel Fever"?
(a) Memories of their childhood
(b) All of the gifts they sent her over the years
(c) Their mother's secret letter collection
(d) Books

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Malison name each of the characters in his second novel in "After Malison"?

2. How does the narrator of "Parade" feel about how he was treated by his parents when he was a child?

3. In "Glen's Homophobia Newsletter", whose voice do the trees in Glen's fake dream have?

4. What does Chad's father buy him for Christmas in "My Manuscript"?

5. What genre could "Parade" be classified as?

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