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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Paterson Public Library.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the girl's father doing in "The Lesson of the Sugarcane"?
(a) Testing new tires.
(b) Changing a flat tire.
(c) Making a tire swing.
(d) Selling repaired flat tires.

2. What did the girl talk about when she was dressed up in "The Changeling"?
(a) Tales of feasts and festivities.
(b) Tales of battles and brotherhood.
(c) Tales of wars and wonders.
(d) Tales of parties and pain.

3. What happen to some of the mother's prayers?
(a) They dissolve into space.
(b) They haunt the apartment.
(c) They get lost in the kitchen.
(d) They fall on the girl.

4. What music does the girl always hear in "Twist and Shout"?
(a) The Beatles.
(b) The Rolling Stones.
(c) Jimi Hendrix.
(d) Janis Joplin.

5. In "How to Get a Baby", what should the woman beckon?
(a) The help of her husband.
(b) The favors of God.
(c) The fertility master.
(d) The soul of her child.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Fever", where does the girl remember her mother eating dinner?

2. How does the girl's mother react to the girl's father in "Fever"?

3. In "Lydia", what is Lydia currently obsessed with?

4. How does the girl know what apartment her father is in in "By Love Betrayed"?

5. In "Lydia", how long has it been since the woman has seen Lydia?

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