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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface - Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author describe watching the insect in "Praying Mantis"?
(a) A train.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A cafe.
(d) His garden.

2. Who is the author of the book the author describes reading in "Praying Mantis"?
(a) Terry Tempest Williams.
(b) Marshal Anders Perrison.
(c) Andrew James Taylor.
(d) James Whitmore.

3. Who wrote New Jim Crow?
(a) Derek Walcott.
(b) Jena Osman.
(c) Michelle Alexander.
(d) Ben Lerner.

4. Who is the author's friend that has been writing a book about innocence, according to his essay "The Negreeting"?
(a) Abdel.
(b) Pat.
(c) Walt.
(d) Michael.

5. Where did the author's father work at Red Barn, according to hsi narrative in "The Negreeting"?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Malvern.
(c) Youngstown.
(d) Hot Springs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of cuttings does the author describe smuggling in "Transplanting"?

2. What food does the author describe eating in his recurring dreams in "Inefficiency"?

3. Who created the film The Greaty Beauty that is described in "Joy is Such a Human Madness"?

4. With what disease had Walt been diagnosed seven years prior, according to the author in "Remission Still"?

5. Who was the author's friend that lived across from the graveyard and was later murdered in the essay "Flower in the Curb"?

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