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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 37 - 72).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of pills does Adam regularly take?
(a) No pills.
(b) Diet pills.
(c) Allergy pills.
(d) Tranquilizers.

2. Why does Cyrus feel responsible for the stranger's drowning?
(a) He taught her how to swim.
(b) He pushed her head under water.
(c) She was his best friend.
(d) She would never have gotten into the river if he had not.

3. When does Adam tend to only find lines of poetry beautiful?
(a) When he sees them quoted in prose.
(b) When he is drunk.
(c) When his mother reads them to him.
(d) When they are the ones he wrote.

4. What actively repels Adam's attention?
(a) Ballet.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Music.
(d) Sports.

5. What does Adam try hard to imagine his poems' relation to in Part II?
(a) The recession.
(b) The Iraq War.
(c) The classroom.
(d) Franco's mass graves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of manner does Tomas exhibit during his reading?

2. What does Adam think of Tomas's work in general?

3. What does Adam tell Isabel to hurt her feelings in Part II?

4. Who is Adam's Spanish tutor?

5. Who wrote the "Selected Poems" Adam usually carries?

(see the answer key)

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