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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Office Hours - Peking Duck, Pages 137 - 182).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What album did Adam once buy for the narrator in "Oranges"?
(a) Beatles Greatest Hits.
(b) White Pony.
(c) The White Album.
(d) Exile in Guyville.

2. What does the narrator's mother work at in "Peking Duck"?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Child care.
(c) Law.
(d) Medicine.

3. What does the back wing of the narrator's house smell like when she opens it up in "Los Angeles"?
(a) A mildewed church basement.
(b) A spring garden.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Food.

4. Why is the narrator worried about Peter in the end of the story "Returning"?
(a) He is not in the grave.
(b) He has drowned.
(c) He is not breathing.
(d) His eyes are closed at first when they dig him up.

5. In "Los Angeles," what does the narrator describe her husband as?
(a) A friend.
(b) A meal.
(c) A resting place.
(d) A sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Returning," how many things does the narrator believe make a meal?

2. Where is Beatrice moving when the story "G" opens?

3. What is the narrator's second-favorite drug in the story "G"?

4. Whose house is the get-together at where the narrator meets old friends in the story "Returning"?

5. Where do the narrator and her husband first meet in the story "Returning"?

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