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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8, The America Play, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Charles lived next door to whom in "Pickling"?
(a) The High School Principal.
(b) The Sheriff.
(c) The Pastor.
(d) Miss Miss and her mother.

3. In "Elements of Style" Parks suggests that form defines what, and vice versa?
(a) Content.
(b) Reviews.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Genre.

4. Mrs. Smith explains to her children in scene "D" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)" that their father's posting is how far away?
(a) 1,000 miles.
(b) An eight hour flight.
(c) Two states.
(d) An entire time zone.

5. What does one of the characters call out to be taken off him in "Panel II: First Chorus" of "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World"?
(a) Straps.
(b) Wires.
(c) Chains.
(d) Clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian?

2. What does Mr. Sergeant Smith refer to as a promotion in "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?

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

4. Lucius describes being known for wearing the same of what every day in scene "B" of "Betting on the Dust Commander"?

5. What is a narrative technique wherein events are portrayed out of chronological order?

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