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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What do the parents of the baby in "Do Not Go Gentle" do at their baby's hospital bedside?
(a) Pray.
(b) Beat hand drums and sing powwow songs.
(c) Talk to their son as if he can hear them.
(d) Cry.

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

5. What is the woman who is the main character of "Can I Get a Witness?" doing at the beginning of the story?
(a) Taking her child to school.
(b) Working at a law firm.
(c) Eating lunch at a restaurant.
(d) Having an affair.

6. What does Richard know about the other basketball players from lunchtime games with them?
(a) They hate Indians.
(b) They play well.
(c) They have a violent core inside.
(d) They cheat.

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

8. Which of the following does not describe Harlan Atwater's physical appearance in "The Search Engine"?
(a) Tall and handsome.
(b) Dark-skinned yet pasty.
(c) Short and fat.
(d) Thick glasses.

9. How many people survive the bomb explosion?
(a) One hundred.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Forty one.

10. What happens to the baby at the end of "Do Not Go Gentle"?
(a) He stays in his coma
(b) He recovers fully.
(c) He dies.
(d) He has a partial recovery.

11. What happens to the woman after she has a laughing, crying, kicking fit on the man's carpet?
(a) She tries to seduce the man.
(b) She has a seizure.
(c) She falls and hits her head.
(d) She throws up.

12. What kind of work does the man in "Can I Get a Witness?" do?
(a) He tends bar.
(b) He owns a nightclub.
(c) He designs computer games.
(d) He drives a taxi.

13. What does Bill say when Richard steals the ball while Bill is dribbling?
(a) Time out.
(b) You cheated.
(c) Do it again and you're dead.
(d) Foul.

14. Which of the following statements does not describe the bomber in "Can I Get a Witness?"
(a) A Syrian American born in Seattle.
(b) A doctoral student in economics.
(c) A Palestinian refugee.
(d) Raised in upper-class comfort.

15. Why is Corliss drawn to Harlan Atwater's poetry?
(a) Atwater's poetry is taught in her English Lit classes.
(b) Atwater writes love poems.
(c) Atwater writes nature poems.
(d) Atwater is a Spokane Indian like her.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following statements does not describe how the woman in "Can I Get a Witness?" feels about the people who died on September 11th?

4. In "Can I Get a Witness?", where does the woman ask the man to take her?

5. Why does Richard not become involved with the woman to whom he is so attracted at the dinner he attends?

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