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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue is Berry criticizing in "In Distrust of Movements"?
(a) The way we eat.
(b) The way American's see environmental problems.
(c) The way we recycle.
(d) The way people drive.

2. Why does the last part of Lopez's journey in "The Stone Horse" have to be traveled on foot?
(a) The road is blocked by boulders.
(b) He ran out of gas.
(c) Tress had fallen in the road.
(d) There is too much ice.

3. Why do the hunters hunt according to Williams in "The Killing Game"?
(a) To eat dinner.
(b) To help people that hit deer with their car.
(c) To stop over population of animals.
(d) For decoration in their house.

4. What does Dickerson think Johnny's assailant is doing in "Who Shot Johnny?"
(a) Being ignorant to people who love him.
(b) Bringing down all the kids in the neighborhood.
(c) Bringing down the entire black community.
(d) Bringing down the house.

5. What American obsession does Queenan discuss in "Matriculation Fixation"?
(a) Health care.
(b) Money.
(c) Going green.
(d) The status of a top-tier university.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the neighbors names that Oates mentions in "They All Just Went Away"?

2. Who is William O. Douglas to Conroy in "Think About It"?

3. What does Talese say about Ali in "Ali in Havana"?

4. Why was this justification used for the death penalty in "The Dramaturgy of Death"?

5. What does Williams think of the hunters reasoning to hunt in "The Killing Game"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Quechan horse still intact, unlike the other archaeological monuments in "The Stone Horse" by Barry Lopez?

2. What does Dickerson say about Johnny's assailant in "Who Shot Johnny?"

3. What does Convoy finally accept at the end of his essay "Think About It"?

4. What event happened that made Americans want to return to that slumber of isolation in "Who We Are"?

5. How does Halberstam see America responding to war in the essay "Who We Are"?

6. Describe the tone of Hodgman's essay "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch,"

7. Describe what Queenan thinks about American universities in "Matriculation Fixation"."

8. Explain Hearne's reasons for the differences of human rights to those of a dog in the essay "What's Wrong With Animal Rights"?

9. Describe what Berry's issue with the American people is in "In Distrust of Movements."

10. Describe Convoy's realization about 'sixths' in "Think About It."

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