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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Fly and the Flower wish for in the Epilogue?
(a) Food.
(b) True love.
(c) Death for the moth.
(d) A different ending.

2. What, at the start of "Symbiosis", does the Virus argue?
(a) That Money is a bad painter.
(b) That jumping is silly.
(c) He cannot exist without Bacterium.
(d) That drinking is bad for his health.

3. Who does the man encounter in "The Bridge" when he crosses the bridge?
(a) His father.
(b) A man with a rope around his chest.
(c) A young child.
(d) A woman crying.

4. Who, in "Nervous Condition" does John marry?
(a) A mean woman.
(b) His high school sweetheart.
(c) A woman his mother's age.
(d) An oversensitive woman.

5. Who does Edwin H. Friedman claim are the "deadly serious creatures"?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Reptiles.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the baby bird in "Soaring" refuse to give his parents satisfaction over?

2. What happens to the dominoes when the chain reaction is halted?

3. What does the man in "The Power of Belief," try to convince people of?

4. What happens when the Scavenger Fish quits her job?

5. What happens to the people on the island after the man leaves in the story "Attachment"?

(see the answer key)

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