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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 "Box Seat".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the woman personified with the face seem to be?
(a) In love.
(b) Thoughtful.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sad.

2. What happens to the speaker and Fern when they are together in the cornfield?
(a) Fern begins to undress.
(b) Fern faints and begins to convulse.
(c) The speaker attacks Fern as the townspeople look on.
(d) They make love.

3. How are the horses pulling the mower in "Reapers" described?
(a) Huge.
(b) Strong.
(c) Loud.
(d) Black.

4. What are reapers' relationships to scythes?
(a) They cut with them.
(b) They attach to them.
(c) They sharpen them.
(d) They use them as tools.

5. When contemplating what sort of life Fern might have, how does the author compare love to prejudice?
(a) It cannot be bettered by a change in geographical location.
(b) It is difficult to change once it has been engrained.
(c) It is deeply rooted in issues of possession.
(d) It is subject to the same narrowminded assumptions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are scythes made?

2. Who is the piano player in the theater that Muriel and Dan go to?

3. What is the woman described in "Face" doing?

4. Why did Carma take a lover?

5. What event has just happened preceding the descriptions in "Seventh Street"?

(see the answer key)

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