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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following statements describes Richard's mother?
(a) A white college basketball player.
(b) A petite Spokane Indian ballerina.
(c) An African American lawyer.
(d) A Spokane Indian poet.

3. What school does Corliss attend?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Washington State University.

4. Who does William call at the end of "Flight Patterns"?
(a) His neighbor.
(b) Fedaku.
(c) His boss.
(d) Marie.

5. How many people die in the bomb explosion in "Can I Get a Witness?"
(a) One hundred.
(b) One.
(c) Forty two.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many times does the baby die and get resuscitated?

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

4. What does the man in "Can I Get a Witness?" advise the only person he can get on the phone to do?

5. What does Estelle's son say at the end of the story that he and his mother have done all his life and will keep doing until one eventually buries the other?

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