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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. Who is Miss Scace?
(a) A gym teacher.
(b) A witch, the mother's nemesis, and a gym teacher.
(c) The mother’s nemesis.
(d) A witch.

2. What does the narrator’s mother say when casting spells in "My Evil Mother"?
(a) Alakazam.
(b) Woosh.
(c) Point.
(d) A curse on you.

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

4. In "Death by Clamshell," why was Hypatia killed?
(a) Rejection of women.
(b) Disagreement with her philosophy.
(c) Witch burning.
(d) Christian-Roman power struggle.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Dusty Lunch," which of the following is NOT a poem Brig wrote?

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

3. Hypatia claims her attackers were deeply concerned with what?

4. In "Death by Clamshell," how is Hypatia killed?

5. In "My Evil Mother" why does the mother want the narrator to break up with her boyfriend?

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