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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tuesday Siesta.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the woman in "Bitterness" afraid of?
(a) Open spaces.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Mice.
(d) Distances.

2. What does José call the woman in "The Woman who Came at Six O'Clock"?
(a) Mother.
(b) Sweetheart.
(c) Maria.
(d) Queen.

3. Where does the woman in "Bitterness" say she will not "wander" anymore?
(a) The village.
(b) The courtyard.
(c) The house.
(d) South America.

4. What caused the characters' blindness in "Night"?
(a) An explosion.
(b) Surgery.
(c) Curlews.
(d) The sun.

5. In the end of "The Third Resignation," what does the protagonist die of?
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) Resignation.
(c) Time.
(d) Tuberculosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Monologue," who habitually comes to sing?

2. What color is the woman's box in "Eyes of a Blue Dog"?

3. What smell is mentioned in the first sentence of "The Other Side of Death"?

4. In "Someone," what was the girl carrying when she came to the narrator's house?

5. What is described in "The Other Side of Death" as having "blue octopuses"?

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