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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Can I Get a Witness?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Corliss searches for information about Harlan Atwater, what does she find out when she e-mails other Indian writers and poets?
(a) Nothing, none of the other writers has ever heard of him.
(b) Atwater is really a woman.
(c) Atwater is the pen name of a white man.
(d) Atwater is good friends with a well known Indian novelist.

2. What was the woman in "Can I Get a Witness" doing on September 11th when the World Trade Center attacks occurred?
(a) Collating files at the law firm where she works.
(b) Flying to Washington, DC.
(c) Shopping in New York.
(d) Taking her children to school.

3. What does Bill say when Richard dunks the basketball?
(a) Well done.
(b) Do it again.
(c) You'll beat us for sure.
(d) Dunking doesn't count.

4. 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?
(a) She would have helped them escape the Twin Towers.
(b) She would have let her family think she had died.
(c) She would have disappeared.
(d) She would have walked away and started a new life.

5. At the dinner Richard attends, who does he think he could take home, sleep with, and abandon?
(a) Teresa.
(b) The Democrat wife.
(c) A black woman at his table.
(d) An Indian woman at his table.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the woman unable to find at the beginning of "Can I Get a Witness?"

2. At the end of "The Search Engine," what does Corliss ask Harlan Atwater for that he does not give her?

3. What does Richard know about the other basketball players from lunchtime games with them?

4. What does Corliss want to buy the white woman she encounters at the Student Union?

5. Why is Corliss drawn to Harlan Atwater's poetry?

(see the answer key)

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