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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 52 - 68.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Stevie Wonder song does the author describe in the beginning of "To Spread the Sweetness of Love"?
(a) "LSD."
(b) "For All We Know."
(c) "Myself."
(d) "Come Back as a Flower."

2. Who wrote the book of essays titled Calamities?
(a) Renee Gladman.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Brian Blanchfield.
(d) C.D. Wright.

3. Where does the author describe the poetry reading in "Pecans"?
(a) The Arts Club of New York.
(b) The Met.
(c) The Wanderer Bookstore.
(d) The Roger Miller Arena.

4. What company logo was on the ball cap of the "young brother" described in "It's Just the Day I"m Having..." (164)?
(a) Subway.
(b) McDonald's.
(c) Wendy's.
(d) Burger King.

5. What movie starring Sean Penn was the author trying to find with his mother in the essay "Ghost"?
(a) I Am Sam.
(b) Dead Man Walking.
(c) Milk.
(d) Mystic River.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main subject of the essay "Baby, Baby, Baby"?

2. What is the first bird the author describes seeing being fed in "Bird Feeding"?

3. What song is described in "Toto" as "a landmark in the genre of kinda racist but" (144)?

4. Where is the letterpress that the author co-owns with Boogie described in "Nicknames"?

5. What did the author initially think that the man lying down was fiddling with in "Public Lying Down"?

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