2. Which of the following statements does not describe the man who asks the female main character in "Can I Get a Witness" if she's okay after the bombing?
(a) A tall Asian.
(b) A short forty-something Caucasian.
(c) Handsome with kind eyes and a mustache.
(d) Twenty pounds overweight.

3. What do Sharon's parents do for a living?
(a) They own a convenience store.
(b) They're architects.
(c) They're musicians.
(d) They're lawyers.

4. How old is the female main character of "Can I Get a Witness?"
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Fifty.

5. Why did the taxi driver leave his birth country?
(a) He couldn't bomb his own people any more.
(b) He feared the poverty and disease there.
(c) He is on the run from the mob.
(d) He killed a man and had to flee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe how the woman has fantasized she would behave if she had been caught in the Twin Towers on September 11th?

2. Who does William call at the end of "Flight Patterns"?

3. How does the woman feel about her children in "Can I Get a Witness?"

4. To where does the man carry the woman at the end of "Can I Get a Witness?"

5. What story does Sharon tell at every family gathering during her long marriage to David?

(see the answer key)

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