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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author's uncle study at college?
(a) Writing.
(b) Traditional medicine.
(c) History.
(d) Painting.

2. What poem did the author read at the event?
(a) A Case of You.
(b) Little Boats.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Blue.

3. At what stage did the doctors give the author her first ultrasound?
(a) 10 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 12 weeks.
(d) 8 weeks.

4. Who did the man drinking Steel Reserve remind the author of?
(a) Ron.
(b) Richard.
(c) Brandon.
(d) Ian.

5. What color of candle did the author use on her altar for protection?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

6. After leaving Brandon, what was the one object in the house where the author stayed?
(a) A wooden altar.
(b) A small statue of a frog.
(c) A coffee table.
(d) An easel.

7. Who did Richard and the author compare themselves to?
(a) Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.
(b) Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
(c) Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
(d) Westley and Buttercup.

8. Who was the first person that the author told about her pregnancy?
(a) Tania.
(b) Brandon.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Richard.

9. What city did the author decide to visit for the weekend?
(a) Vancouver,
(b) Astoria.
(c) Salem.
(d) Portland.

10. What kind of movie did Brandon and the author go see?
(a) Romance.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Superhero.

11. What color was the author's lipstick at the reading?
(a) Terracotta brown.
(b) Cherry red.
(c) Fire-engine red.
(d) Black.

12. What does the name Nooksack mean?
(a) People of the river.
(b) Come in.
(c) Rose quartz.
(d) Place of the bracken root.

13. When she went away for the weekend, what did the author want to do aside from visiting friends?
(a) Go to the large bookstore.
(b) Relax in the hotel room.
(c) Shop for records.
(d) Go kayaking.

14. What did the author's pendant remind her of?
(a) Dracula's concubines.
(b) Courtney Love.
(c) Childhood with Richard.
(d) The owls of Twin Peaks.

15. What did the author do with the land she inherited?
(a) Sold it to the Lummi tribe.
(b) Built a house on it.
(c) Sold it to a condo developer.
(d) Camped on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the author's uncle's death?

2. What had the author left at Tania's house?

3. What actor was in the movie Brandon and the author went to see?

4. Where did the author buy a house?

5. What borough did the author's friend live in?

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