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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Elements of Style," Parks incorporates diagrams illustrating how some of her works function as what?
(a) Methodical melodramas.
(b) Grammatical symbols.
(c) Mathematical equations.
(d) Postmodernist identities.

2. In "Snail," scene "C," Molly announces her decision to not make a career out of what?
(a) Blackmail.
(b) Being down and out.
(c) Hopelessness.
(d) Begging.

3. In her opening essays, what does Parks define as "the holding or having of something of one's own"?
(a) Adoption.
(b) Ownership.
(c) Belonging.
(d) Possession.

4. Who speaks of developing an unusual friendship with a robber who repeatedly came to her house in scene "A" of "Snails"?
(a) Charlene.
(b) Mona.
(c) Molly.
(d) Veronica.

5. What title of a play in the collection was derived from a phrase in a half-waking dream of the author's?
(a) "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World."
(b) "Pickling."
(c) "The America Play."
(d) "Devotees in the Garden of Love."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression or presented in a spiritual or performance setting?

2. What is Veronica's name in scene "F" of "Snails"?

3. What refers to a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions?

4. What does Charlene complain the apartment is infested with in scene "C" of "Snails"?

5. What word does Molly repeat on different occasions in scene "A" of "Snails"?

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