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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the man in the "The Bridge" responsible for?
(a) Saving someone's life.
(b) His family.
(c) Saving his business.
(d) Getting supper on the table.

3. What does the baby bird in "Soaring" refuse to give his parents satisfaction over?
(a) His career.
(b) Retirement.
(c) His birth.
(d) His achievement.

4. Why is John shocked at his wife's behavior at the end of "Nervous Condition"?
(a) No one has treated him like this.
(b) She used to be mean.
(c) He didn't think she loved him.
(d) His wife has no personality.

5. What do baby bird and his parents ultimately fight for in "Soaring"?
(a) A better life.
(b) Love.
(c) Control.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Oedipus?

3. When does the man cut back the holly a second time?

4. What happens to the moth at the end of "Round in Circles"?

5. What is John's nervous condition?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Edwin H. Friedman feel towards his publishers and editors and why?

2. What is the significance of the man crossing the bridge in the story of the "The Bridge"?

3. What does Edwin H. Friedman mean by "The Failure of Syntax"?

4. How does the doctor try to break the man's belief in "The Power of Belief"? What is the result of the attempt?

5. Why is the lamb afraid of the tiger in "The Friendly Forest"? What is her friend's advice?

6. What is the common moral in "An American Holly" and "The Power of Belief"?

7. What does Cassandra offer to the debate between Faust and Oedipus?

8. Why does the man on the rope in "The Bridge" think the first man is being selfish?

9. What does Faust argue is the best way for humans to find truth?

10. How does the man in "An American Holly" treat his holly plant?

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