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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. Which of the following does not describe the physical appearance of Corliss?
(a) Tall with thick glasses.
(b) Plain-featured with clear, dark brown skin, and long hair.
(c) Large-breasted and wearing red cowboy boots.
(d) Short and thirty pounds overweight.

2. At the end of "The Search Engine," what does Corliss ask Harlan Atwater for that he does not give her?
(a) His real name.
(b) Romance.
(c) A critique of poetry she's written.
(d) Money.

3. Which of the following statements does not describe what Corliss learns about Harlan Atwater when she finally meets him face to face?
(a) He is a fake.
(b) He lived everything he wrote in his poems.
(c) He never lived on a reservation.
(d) He was raised by white adoptive parents, not Indians.

4. 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 him get the woman to a hospital.
(c) Quit his job.
(d) Help rescue people from the bombing site.

5. Why doesn't Corliss want a white roommate?
(a) She is ashamed of her poverty and thinks whites are rich.
(b) White people romanticize Indians as wise and spiritual.
(c) Her tribe wants her to socialize with other Indians only.
(d) She wants a male Indian roommate instead.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does "The Search Engine" take place?

3. What does Richard think Bill's problem with dunking really is?

4. In "Can I Get a Witness?", how does the woman feel about her husband?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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