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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Public Sphere: On Being Black and Middle Class, The Killing Game, and The Dramaturgy of Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was lynched in 1999 according to Rushdy in "Exquisite Corpse"
(a) Chrish Byrd.
(b) Bird Jones.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) James Byrd.

2. Pertaining to "Book Marks" what parallel is McClanahan making to her own life story?
(a) The direction of the wind.
(b) Her mother's life.
(c) Her first daughter's life.
(d) The underlinings in a library book, made by a previous reader.

3. What is Wills considering in his essay, "The Dramaturgy of Death"?
(a) Our justice system.
(b) Drunk drivers.
(c) The justification for the death penalty.
(d) Global warming.

4. What is Ehrlich reflecting on in "Spring"?
(a) Her illness.
(b) The beautiful country.
(c) The insignificance of human existence .
(d) Her late husband.

5. What does the interviewee in "Turning Point" do?
(a) Conduct the Atlanta Symphony.
(b) Mayor of NYC.
(c) Tight rope walker.
(d) Jump ropist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ehrlich mention rejecting when she was younger in "Spring"?

2. What does Cofer NOT mention being in Little Puerto Rico?

3. What thought does the stunt pilot know was possible, but never bothered him in "The Stunt Pilot"?

4. Who does Talese accompany to Cuba in "Ali in Havana"?

5. What new thing happened to Frazier and his friends as they grew up in "A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose"?

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