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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. What does the man in "Can I Get a Witness?" advise the only person he can get on the phone to do?
(a) Make free pizza for rescue workers.
(b) Help rescue people from the bombing site.
(c) Quit his job.
(d) Help him get the woman to a hospital.

2. What does Richard imagine at the end of "Lawyer's League"?
(a) Being President of the U.S.
(b) Defending his fight with Bill at a press conference.
(c) Winning a basketball championship.
(d) Marriage to Theresa.

3. Which of the following statements describes the father of Richard, the narrator in "Lawyer's League"?
(a) An African American politician.
(b) A Spokane Indian pro basketball star.
(c) An African American who played defensive end in college.
(d) A white pro basketball player.

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

5. What kind of poetry does Harlan Atwater write in "The Search Engine"?
(a) Odes.
(b) Free-verse sonnets.
(c) Cinquains.
(d) Haiku.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not describe the bomber in "Can I Get a Witness?"

2. How do Corliss's father and uncles feel about poetry?

3. Which of the following statements does not describe the woman's life in "Can I Get a Witness?"

4. When the man can't get 911 and dials other numbers to test the phone service after the bombing, what is the only number that answers?

5. Which of the following is not a way Corliss gets a prep school education in high school without attending an expensive prep school?

(see the answer key)

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