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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of "Soaring", what does the baby bird enjoy?
(a) His family.
(b) Freedom.
(c) His friends.
(d) Food.

2. What are most of the bird couples' children able to do in "Soaring"?
(a) Speak.
(b) Fly.
(c) Find worms.
(d) Sing.

3. What does Edwin H. Friedman claim "real figures of speech" are based on?
(a) Similies.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Smiles.
(d) Attitudes.

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

5. What does Faust want people to look to for inspiration?
(a) Books.
(b) The future.
(c) Art.
(d) The mountains.

6. What does Faust want people to ignore to gain inspiration?
(a) The past.
(b) The lakes.
(c) The future.
(d) Books.

7. What does the baby bird in "Soaring" want for himself?
(a) Money.
(b) Independence.
(c) Fame.
(d) A nest.

8. Who do baby bird's parents take their anger out on?
(a) The other children.
(b) Worms.
(c) Each other.
(d) The people standing beneath them.

9. Who writes the report in "Raising Cain: A Case History of the First Family"?
(a) A social worker.
(b) A student.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A teacher.

10. What is the lamb's friends' advice at the end of ""The Friendly Forest"?
(a) To communicate with the tiger.
(b) To run away.
(c) To communicate with the bear.
(d) To hide in a tree.

11. What lessons do the morals in Part 2 encourage?
(a) Communication.
(b) Sharing.
(c) Caring.
(d) Good marriage.

12. Who does the author claim he feels protective over in the Prologue?
(a) His wife.
(b) His agent.
(c) The characters.
(d) His mother.

13. What does Billy like to cut up in "Projection"?
(a) His steak.
(b) His toys.
(c) His clothes.
(d) His homework.

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

15. When baby bird enacts his punishment upon his parents, what happens?
(a) He dies.
(b) He injures himself.
(c) He cries.
(d) He flies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the person the man encounters on the bridge?

3. How do people treat John because of his nervous condition?

4. In what season does the holly die for the first time?

5. What is "The essential question of human existence" according to Faust?

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