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

2. What happens to John's nervous condition at the end of the story?
(a) He seeks therapy.
(b) He forgives his mother.
(c) He realizes taxis are clean.
(d) His nerves retreat into his body.

3. How does the person the man encounters on the bridge feel the man is acting?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Silly.
(d) Angry.

4. In "The Failure of Syntax", what does Edwin H. Friedman claim communication does not depend on?
(a) Two people.
(b) Hand gestures.
(c) Grammar.
(d) French.

5. What is John's nervous condition?
(a) He doesn't like the rain.
(b) He is afraid of taxis.
(c) His nerve endings are outside his body.
(d) His mother beat him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, in "Projection", do Billy's parents decide to take him to a doctor?

2. What animal is the moth confused by in "Round in Circles"?

3. What is the lamb's friends' advice at the end of ""The Friendly Forest"?

4. Why are Billy's parents worried in "Projection"?

5. How does the other animal in "Round in Circles", react to the moth's advice?

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