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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did L tell M he found "obscene" (19) in his first letter to her?
(a) The traffic in Boston.
(b) The way women dressed these days.
(c) The pollution in L.A.
(d) The amount of money he was making.

2. Why does the narrator say nothing as she watches an old man fondle a little girl on the train?
(a) She did not care.
(b) She had lost her voice.
(c) The man threatened her.
(d) She hoped someone else would.

3. Who is Kurt?
(a) Tony's brother.
(b) Justine's boyfriend.
(c) A musician who stayed in the second place.
(d) M's first husband.

4. Who did the narrator meet during her darkest years who helped improve her life?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Jeffers.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Tony.

5. What did M once see a musician who was staying in the second place to record bird songs doing?
(a) Frying eggs naked.
(b) Flapping around and pretending to be a bird.
(c) Making love to a woman.
(d) Talking to a bird as if it could understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she learned from a young age would have made her life easier?

2. What did Tony want in the second place, which M did not?

3. Who does the narrator say appears to be free, which "doesn't look like much" (8)?

4. Where was L when M first wrote to him?

5. Where did L say he was staying instead of going to the second place?

(see the answer key)

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