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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Just Right" - "Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would Miss Adele buy a studio apartment if she had $800,000?
(a) Florida.
(b) Bed-Stuy.
(c) Brooklyn Heights.
(d) Battery Park.

2. Whose writing does the narrator describe reading at the Eastern Seaboard in "Downtown"?
(a) Roger Moore.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Andrew Stilton.
(d) E. M. Cioran.

3. Where was Donovan born and raised?
(a) Greenwich Village.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Bedford Stuyvesant.
(d) The Upper East Side.

4. The narrator in "Sentimental Education" says, "There is an old cliche about street life" (14). What is the cliche?
(a) "You start there and you end there."
(b) "It's meaningless."
(c) "It's a gateway to financial depravity."
(d) "You leave, but the streets follow."

5. Who wrote Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics?
(a) P. F. Strawson.
(b) Alexander Rosen.
(c) Michael Hatcliff.
(d) J. R. Ross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Donovan's mother?

2. To what corset store does Adele go in "Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets"?

3. What does Donovan's teacher tell him not to call her in "Just Right"?

4. Who is Adele's twin brother?

5. Where does the narrator in "Downtown" describe going to "chew on some tough schnitzel and get blasted till the early hours" (84)?

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