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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the other animal in "Round in Circles", react to the moth's advice?
(a) He covers his ears and sings "lalala!"
(b) He shouts "Tais-toi!"
(c) He ignores it.
(d) He takes it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In "The Bridge" what must the man do so he won't lose a long awaited opportunity?
(a) Fight a caged lion.
(b) Cry.
(c) Bribe the mayor.
(d) Act immediately.

9. Who does the man in "The Power of Belief" see in order to fix him?
(a) A priest and a shrink.
(b) An exorcist.
(c) A vet.
(d) A handsome man.

10. What distracts the moth in ""Round in Circles"?
(a) A closet filled with coats.
(b) A human.
(c) A car.
(d) A bright light.

11. What is the youngest bird unable to do at the start of "Soaring"?
(a) Speak.
(b) Fly.
(c) Sing.
(d) Groom.

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

13. What is "The essential question of human existence" according to Faust?
(a) Anger.
(b) Joy.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Cheating.

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

15. At the end of "Nervous Condition", how does John's wife attack him?
(a) With words.
(b) She steps on his nerves.
(c) With a bat.
(d) With a knife.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the family doctor ask the man in "The Power of Belief"?

4. What happens to the plant at the end of "An American Holly"?

5. What does the baby bird in "Soaring" want for himself?

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