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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Distance” - “Faith in a Tree”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event at work upsets the narrator in "The Floating Truth"?
(a) The narrator's boss harrasses her.
(b) A new, young woman is hired.
(c) The narrator is fired.
(d) The narrator is being asked to do too much work.

2. What does the welfare office tell Virginia when she first calls after New Year's in "An Interest in Life"?
(a) Her husband is not enlisted in the army.
(b) There is no record of her husband.
(c) Her husband is deceased.
(d) Her marriage was never legalized.

3. Why did Dotty get angry and leave Freddy's after spending a couple days at his place in "The Contest"?
(a) She found out he had other girlfriends.
(b) He told her she was overweight.
(c) She found out he turned down a job.
(d) He said he would never marry her.

4. Who recites Faith a poem at the end of "Faith in the Afternoon"?
(a) Faith's mother.
(b) Faith's father.
(c) Ricardo.
(d) Mrs. Hegel-Stein.

5. What does Ricardo tell Faith in the letter he writes her in "Faith in a Tree"?
(a) He wants custody of their sons.
(b) He is not well and needs money.
(c) He wants her to take him back.
(d) He is having a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michael always call Anna in "Debts"?

2. Why does Livid give Pallid permission to think of his sons as his in a letter?

3. Why did Virginia's husband begin sleeping on the floor?

4. Why does Anna want Peter to watch Judy in "The Pale Pink Roast"?

5. What does Faith vow to do after her son copies a protest sign in chalk at the playground?

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