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

2. When Corliss searches for information about Harlan Atwater, what does she find out from the Spokane Indian tribe?
(a) Atwater is an alcoholic.
(b) Nothing, no one has ever heard of him.
(c) His father was also a poet.
(d) Atwater is from a large and well known Spokane family.

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

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

5. Why doesn't Corliss own her own computer?
(a) She doesn't know how to use a computer.
(b) She doesn't need to use computers for her classes.
(c) She's too poor to afford one.
(d) She doesn't like computers.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why doesn't Corliss want a white roommate?

3. In "The Search Engine," what poet does the man in the Student Union quote at the beginning of the story?

4. What does Richard imagine at the end of "Lawyer's League"?

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

(see the answer key)

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