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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 is the purpose of the screen on the forehead in "Narcissus"?
(a) It protects the scientists from light.
(b) It shows what humans are thinking.
(c) It shields humans from spiders.
(d) It shows television all the time.

2. What does Cinderella dream of?
(a) Being rescued.
(b) Starting a maid service.
(c) Killing her stepmom.
(d) Being a painter.

3. Who debates his idea of psychoanalysis in "Tradition"?
(a) Faust.
(b) Freud.
(c) Moses.
(d) Marx.

4. Why does the owner of the flower shop put the flower in "The Wallflower" behind all of the others?
(a) She smells bad.
(b) So he can keep her.
(c) She is too ugly to be in the front.
(d) He wants to showcase the other flowers.

5. How does Cinderella's stepmom begin her speech in "Cinderella: An Address Delivered to the National Association of Family Therapists by Cinderella's Stepmother"?
(a) She thanks the audience.
(b) She makes fun of Cinderella.
(c) She cries.
(d) She screams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the flower in "The Wallflower" try and make herself more attractive?

2. Who invents a socio-political-economic philosophy theory?

3. Who comes out of the therapist's office in "Jean and Jane" ?

4. Who are the two silent accomplices in "The Lesson"?

5. How are the people in "Attachment" attached to each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. What historical figures appear in "Tradition" and what is their role in society?

2. What is the relationship between Bacterium and Virus in "Symbiosis"?

3. Why is the shipwrecked man uncomfortable on the island in "Attachment" ?

4. What happens to the flower at the end of "The Wallflower"?

5. Why is the flower in the story "The Wallflower" constantly worried about her looks?

6. How does perfection lead to Ms. Muffet's death in "Caught in Her Own Web"?

7. Why is the woman in "The Magic Ring" heartbroken at the start of the story?

8. What is interesting about the character names in "Caught in Her Own Web"?

9. What is the problem with making ideal humans in "Narcissus"?

10. What are the powers of the ring in the story "The Magic Ring"?

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