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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, pgs. 322-384.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Richards refuse to face about Bellona?
(a) All of the answers are correct.
(b) Her friends are no longer here.
(c) Her husband is becoming disconnected from their family.
(d) The unexplained events that have changed everything about the city.

2. Why did the Richards hire Kidd in the first place?
(a) He is needy.
(b) They wanted to meet someone new in the neighborhood.
(c) As a companion for Mrs. Richards.
(d) The managment company of the apartment building never cleaned out the new apartment.

3. What is the first line of the novel Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany?
(a) To wound the autumnal city.
(b) So howled out for the world to give him a name.
(c) Hall of mirrors.
(d) The in-dark answered with wind.

4. What does Madame Brown try to explain to Kidd?
(a) She is a therapist and can help Kidd.
(b) She never wants to go home.
(c) About the day she tried to flee mental from a hospital.
(d) She was a patient in a hospital.

5. How does Mrs, Richards try to keep up appearances and thus become delusional?
(a) She cannot use the internet to understand what has happened.
(b) She refuses to read current news articles.
(c) She pretends she will entertain her husband's business associates.
(d) She acts as though all her old friends are still in the neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does June Richards turn out to be?

2. Who does Kidd find to help him?

3. Where does the bus let Kidd off?

4. About what do the women ask him questions?

5. The next day, while Mrs. Richards and Kidd talk, what happens?

(see the answer key)

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