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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the parents in "Do Not Go Gentle" and the other parents in the hospital sick and tired of?
(a) Medical bills.
(b) Waiting for their babies to die.
(c) Hospital cafeteria food.
(d) Doctors and nurses.

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

3. What "dirty secret" does Richard reveal about Indian tribal leaders at the beginning of "Lawyer's League"?
(a) Many are functionally illiterate.
(b) Many embezzle tribal funds.
(c) Many engage in extramarital affairs.
(d) Many become alcoholics.

4. To what city does the woman to whom Richard is attracted at the dinner move?
(a) Boston.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

6. In "Can I Get a Witness?", where does the woman ask the man to take her?
(a) To the police.
(b) To her home.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To his home.

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

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

9. Why does Richard not become involved with the woman to whom he is so attracted at the dinner he attends?
(a) She is married to his boss.
(b) She would not be a wise choice for his political career.
(c) She has cancer.
(d) She is pregnant with another man's child.

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

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

12. In "Can I Get a Witness?", what kind of work does the woman do?
(a) She's a teacher.
(b) She's a writer.
(c) She's a paralegal.
(d) She's a dentist.

13. Where did Richard grow up?
(a) Seattle.
(b) California.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Phoenix.

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

15. How old is Corliss in "The Search Engine"?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Bill tells Richard to "go home, son"?

2. How does the woman feel about her children in "Can I Get a Witness?"

3. Why don't the parents of the baby in "Do Not Go Gentle" name their son at the beginning of the story?

4. Which of the following statements does not describe what Corliss learns about Harlan Atwater when she finally meets him face to face?

5. What happens to the baby at the end of "Do Not Go Gentle"?

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