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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does baby bird never return home at the end of "Soaring"?
(a) He enjoys his life too much.
(b) He is lost.
(c) He dies.
(d) He hates his family.

2. Who does Cassandra agree with at the end of the Interlude?
(a) No one.
(b) Her father.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Faust.

3. What do Faust and Oedipus want humans to realize?
(a) War is good.
(b) Books are important.
(c) The world is ending.
(d) The truth.

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

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

6. What, according to Cassandra, does the human race rely on?
(a) Money.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Power.

7. How many children do the birds in "Soaring" have?
(a) 12.
(b) 2.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

8. What do the lamb's friends say about her fear?
(a) She is silly.
(b) She is stupid.
(c) She has a right to be scared.
(d) She must know a lot about shears.

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

10. How does the moth try to help the other animal in "Round in Circles"?
(a) He sings.
(b) He tries to show a different perspective.
(c) He holds open the window.
(d) He sounds an alarm.

11. How do the bird couple in "Soaring" feel about their youngest?
(a) Scared.
(b) Angry.
(c) Worried.
(d) Happy.

12. How do the people who treat the man in "The Power of Belief" feel after speaking with the man?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Frustrated.

13. What does the man in "The Power of Belief," try to convince people of?
(a) He is wealthy.
(b) He is smart.
(c) He is a horse.
(d) He is dead.

14. What do Faust and Oedipus do together in the Interlude?
(a) Debate.
(b) Fish.
(c) Duel.
(d) Eat brunch.

15. What happens to the person the man encounters on the bridge?
(a) He is a ghost.
(b) She finds her mother.
(c) She marries.
(d) He dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Oedipus?

2. What does Cassandra argue is the fundamental aspect of human existence?

3. What does Billy like to cut up in "Projection"?

4. What does the man in ""An American Holly" promise to do after he returns from a trip with his family?

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

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