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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "La Frontera".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does Leslie describe herself when she wanted to end her pregnancy in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) 27.
(b) 23.
(c) 25.
(d) 21.

2. When does the author describe her trip to Tijuana and Mexicali for the literary conference in "La Frontera"?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2012.

3. When did the seizures of Stephanie Phillips's character begin, according to her script in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) 1 year ago.
(b) 4 years ago.
(c) 2 years ago.
(d) 6 months ago.

4. Where is Lenny said to be from in "Devil's Bait"?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Oklahoma.

5. What kind of avant-garde poetry is Marco described as being interested in, in "La Frontera"?
(a) Modernist poetry.
(b) Beat poetry.
(c) Flarf poetry.
(d) Broadside poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had the author traveled and been infected with a human botfly?

2. What does the author describe winning in the conference lottery in "Devil's Bait"?

3. Who in "La Frontera" is described as "the Stewmaker" that dissolves his victims in acid?

4. What nineteenth-century biologist is quoted in "Devil's Bait" with the words, "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing" (55)?

5. Who does the author describe as liking "to kill at parties because it makes his message more visible" in "La Frontera" (63)?

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