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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Bonds and Binds, Fables 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does communication depend on in "The Failure of Syntax"?
(a) Grammar.
(b) Hand gestures.
(c) Sign language.
(d) Emotional context.

2. What is the youngest bird unable to do at the start of "Soaring"?
(a) Speak.
(b) Fly.
(c) Groom.
(d) Sing.

3. What does baby bird discover one morning upon waking?
(a) He can speak!
(b) His parents are gone.
(c) The nest is gone.
(d) He has no wings.

4. What happens to the people on the island after the man leaves in the story "Attachment"?
(a) They go with him.
(b) They die.
(c) They cry.
(d) They cut off their cords.

5. What do Faust and Oedipus discuss in the Interlude?
(a) Fish.
(b) Literature.
(c) Women.
(d) Humanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What challenge did Edwin H. Friedman face in writing his fables?

2. Who does Cassandra agree with at the end of the Interlude?

3. When does the man cut back the holly a second time?

4. At the end of "Nervous Condition", how does John's wife attack him?

5. What does the Bacterium tell the Virus to do at the start of "Symbiosis"?

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