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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Failure of Syntax, Fables 3 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the man in the "The Bridge" responsible for?
(a) His family.
(b) Saving someone's life.
(c) Saving his business.
(d) Getting supper on the table.

2. When, in "Projection", do Billy's parents decide to take him to a doctor?
(a) When he is in a car accident.
(b) When he draws spilled organs.
(c) When he is expelled.
(d) When he refuses to eat vegetables.

3. In "Projection", what does Billy want to be when he grows up?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A serial killer.
(c) A cop.
(d) A doctor.

4. What animal is the moth confused by in "Round in Circles"?
(a) A fly.
(b) A bear.
(c) A fish.
(d) A cat.

5. What does the person whom the man encounters on the bridge ask him to do?
(a) Embrace him.
(b) Hold the rope.
(c) Get her a hanky.
(d) Find her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes John's wife to change the way she treats her husband in "Nervous Condition"?

2. Who does the author claim he feels protective over in the Prologue?

3. Who is the first family in "Raising Cain: A Case History of the First Family"?

4. What happens to the moth at the end of "Round in Circles"?

5. How does the moth try to help the other animal in "Round in Circles"?

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