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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Richard surprised to be invited to play basketball in a lawyer's league?
(a) He doesn't know the other players.
(b) He's not a lawyer.
(c) He is a lousy basketball player.
(d) He doesn't play basketball.

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

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

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

5. To what kind of dinner is Richard invited?
(a) A Republican campaign dinner.
(b) A bipartisan lobbyist dinner.
(c) A college graduation dinner.
(d) A basketball team's celebratory dinner.

6. Which of the following is something the man and his wife in "Do Not Go Gentle" do with Chocolate Thunder?
(a) Give it to a neighbor.
(b) Hang it over their baby's crib as a mobile.
(c) Use it as a paperweight.
(d) Bury it.

7. Where does "The Search Engine" take place?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Seattle.

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. At the dinner Richard attends, how many other single people are seated at his table?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

13. How old is the female main character of "Can I Get a Witness?"
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty.

14. What kind of store does the man in "Do Not Go Gentle" mistakenly visit instead of a toy store?
(a) A sex toy store.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) A porn store.
(d) A grocery store.

15. 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 the pen name of a white man.
(b) Atwater is really a woman.
(c) Atwater is good friends with a well known Indian novelist.
(d) Nothing, none of the other writers has ever heard of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bill's nickname in "Lawyer's League"?

2. How old is the mother of the ailing baby in "Do Not Go Gentle"?

3. According to the librarian, how many other people have checked out Harlan Atwater's book before Corliss?

4. Where is the man in "Do Not Go Gentle" when he falls into a waking sleep?

5. When Corliss searches for information about Harlan Atwater, what does she find out from the Spokane Indian tribe?

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