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

2. Who warns the lamb about her friends' advice?
(a) Her father.
(b) The farmer.
(c) A member of the forest community.
(d) Her mother.

3. What, according to Oedipus, has external knowledge buried?
(a) Art.
(b) Literature.
(c) Acceptance of nature.
(d) Religion.

4. What challenge did Edwin H. Friedman face in writing his fables?
(a) The editors wanted to revise them.
(b) He could not find the source of his fables.
(c) He was sued by his ex-wife.
(d) He was lazy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor think about Billy in "Projection"?

2. In the Interlude, what does Oedipus think will happen if people follow Cassandra's line of thinking?

3. What is the lamb afraid of in "The Friendly Forest"?

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

5. What do baby bird and his parents ultimately fight for in "Soaring"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Edwin H. Friedman's relationship to his characters?

2. How is John treated by others in "Nervous Condition" and why?

3. What do Faust and Oedipus debate in the Interlude?

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

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

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

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

8. What does the line "the essential difficulty in trying to communicate with another is how to get past the interference of the resistance demons who inhabit that other" mean?

9. Why does baby bird worry his parents so much?

10. What finally convinces baby bird to leave the nest?

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