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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many dogs did a vet tech kill by mistake because their six-digit ID numbers were one digit off in "A Full Service Shelter"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

2. What can the narrator of "I Stay with Syd" smell as she and Syd wait to go back inside the theater?
(a) Popcorn.
(b) Fertilizer.
(c) Oil.
(d) Sewage plant.

3. What is the preview to a movie that Syd and the narrator watch in "I Stay with Syd"?
(a) Action thriller.
(b) Sci-fi thriller.
(c) Romance.
(d) Western.

4. In "Fort Bedd," where does the author want to plant a tree?
(a) Edge of a field.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) A school.
(d) A park.

5. In "Fort Bedd," where is the apartment?
(a) South side of the park.
(b) West side of the park.
(c) North side of the park.
(d) East side of the park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Greed travel?

2. How long has Mrs. Greed cheated on her husband?

3. In what position are the curtains in the apartment in "Fort Bedd"?

4. Why do Syd, the narrator, and everyone else have to leave the theater in in "I Stay with Syd"?

5. What does the narrator say that her husband Mrs. Greed had between them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lauryn and Macario spend the summer they were married?

2. What does the narrator say about the affair between Syd and a married man?

3. In "Sing to It," what does the man want and what does he get?

4. Why do Syd and the narrator have to leave the theater before the movie is over, in "I Stay with Syd"?

5. At the beginning of "I Stay with Syd," what does the narrator say about Syd's married man?

6. What was the Presa Canarios, and why was the narrator afraid of the breed?

7. Why did Lauryn try to commit suicide in Madrid, and why did she survive?

8. What are the dolls like in the "Doll Tornado"?

9. How does Mrs. Greed get to and from the narrator's husband's house?

10. How do the narrator and other volunteers handle injuries they receive from handling the dogs?

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