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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: A Dusty Lunch (228-258).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the most alarming portrait of Hypatia look like?
(a) She is glowing white with exposed body parts.
(b) She is a young girl with a velvet dress.
(c) She is greenish white with floor length hair.
(d) She is an elderly woman.

2. In "A Dusty Lunch," Nell thinks Marty would have been doing what in earlier times?
(a) Unhappily working.
(b) Running a Midwestern farm.
(c) Grieving a lover.
(d) Married with seven children.

3. The mother saying she is “immune to cold” (97) is an example of what?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Imagery.

4. In "Death by Clamshell," who was Hypatia?
(a) A Portugese servant to the king.
(b) A Roman mathematician and philosopher.
(c) A Grecian princess and artist.
(d) A wealthy member of the royal court.

5. In "A Dusty Lunch," what was Brig’s father’s job?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) CEO.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Dusty Lunch," what does Tig’s family pass down?

2. In "A Dusty Lunch," what was the name of Nell’s war-time coffee?

3. In "My Evil Mother," what creature does the narrator believe her father is?

4. What does J.O.B stand for?

5. In "A Dusty Lunch," what does Nell think about Brig’s letters?

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