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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On Hope, Happy Endings, The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket, Girl, The Other Wife.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second scenario presented in Happy Endings, who kills him/herself?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Christine.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Mary.

2. How does the author say the night had fallen in The Falling Girl?
(a) Eerily.
(b) Nervously.
(c) Craftily.
(d) Spookily.

3. Who is the author of The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket?
(a) Yasunari Kawabata.
(b) Joyce Carol Oates.
(c) Julio Cortazar.
(d) Margaret Atwood.

4. Where does Blackberries take place?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Wales.

5. Who is the author of Blackberries?
(a) Jorge Luis Borges.
(b) Spencer Holst.
(c) Leslie Norris.
(d) Stuart Dybek.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Marta falls in The Falling Girl, the people get gradually more and more what as she nears the ground?

2. What becomes ruined due to the boy and his father in Blackberries?

3. What does the gypsy in On Hope train monkeys to do?

4. What is the name of the central male character in Happy Endings?

5. What does the gypsy's monkey bring to him in On Hope?

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