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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Greed to Four Calls in the Last Half Hour.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what position are the curtains in the apartment in "Fort Bedd"?
(a) Closed.
(b) Half open.
(c) Tied back.
(d) Stuffed up in the curtain rod.

2. In "Fort Bedd," how does the narrator open the curtains sometimes?
(a) Shoves them open.
(b) Like an anxious child.
(c) Like a diver surfacing.
(d) Rips them open.

3. How does Mrs. Greed get to the narrator's home to see the narrator's husband?
(a) Subway.
(b) Walks.
(c) Car and driver.
(d) Bus.

4. How long do the narrator, Syd, and the others have to wait before they can go back inside the theater, in "I Stay with Syd"?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 60 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

5. When did four black students wait to be served at a Woolworth's five-and-ten?
(a) August 1959.
(b) March 1960.
(c) February 1960.
(d) December 1959.

Short Answer Questions

1. While other people are at 100 percent, what percent is the narrator in "Four Calls in the Last Half Hour"?

2. What is the preview to a movie that Syd and the narrator watch in "I Stay with Syd"?

3. How many police cars show up when Syd, the narrator, and others have to leave the theater, in "I Stay with Syd"?

4. In "Fort Bedd," where does the author want to plant a tree?

5. What name is given to the cowboy-colored pocket pit bull in "A Full Service Shelter"?

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