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

2. What kind of elevator is in the yeti's building in "Yeti Lovemaking"?
(a) Enderson.
(b) Forbic.
(c) Helenic.
(d) Otis.

3. Why was G so hard to get in the present-day in the story "G"?
(a) There had been a government crackdown.
(b) No one wanted it anymore.
(c) It was the subject of lawsuits.
(d) Its ingredients were extinct.

4. How does Beatrice "escape" her mother in the story "G"?
(a) By rebelling against her mother's principles.
(b) By dropping out of college.
(c) By leaving the country.
(d) By getting married.

5. What can fiction be, according to Peter in "Returning"?
(a) A kind of magic.
(b) Another universe.
(c) A balm.
(d) A space for the alternative self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest tell the narrator the soil of the Garboza forest is like in "Returning"?

2. Who do the police come to the narrator's house looking for in "Los Angeles"?

3. What does the professor show Marie shortly before he dies in "Office Hours"?

4. Where does the narrator move when she first comes to the U.S. in "Peking Duck"?

5. What does the flight attendant tell the narrator there is the same word for that has two meanings in "Returning"?

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