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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8, North by Northeast, Chapters 1-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does William call from a pay phone in western Oregon?
(a) The police.
(b) A fellow teacher.
(c) Barbara Pierre.
(d) His wife.

2. What is wrong with Porfirio's leg?
(a) It's sunburned.
(b) He cut it in an accident.
(c) He can't bend it.
(d) It is swollen from the heat.

3. What is the name of the university where William spends the night in a dorm in Michigan?
(a) Kalamazoo College.
(b) Lake Superior State University.
(c) Central Michigan University.
(d) University of Michigan.

4. What holiday is it when William wakes up in Cookeville, Tennessee?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Fourth of July.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

5. What poet said "Memory is a kind of accomplishment" that William thinks of as he drives toward Dime Box?
(a) William Carlos Williams.
(b) Donne.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Dante.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Swamp Guinea's Fish Lodge?

2. What does Virginia Been own in Hachita, New Mexico?

3. What phrase does Black Elk use in The Sacred Pipe that stuns William because he thought he had coined the phrase?

4. What do Barbara and William talk about over lunch?

5. What does William help Scott build while he visits him?

(see the answer key)

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