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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Pain Tours (II)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "is the clinical name for shared delusions" (36)?
(a) Folie a deux.
(b) Laurie a deux.
(c) Omniscient hallucinations.
(d) Articulate reasoning.

2. Who is the tour guide on the Gang Tour who is named after a zodiac sign in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) Aries.
(b) Virgo.
(c) Capricorn.
(d) Leo.

3. Who wrote "Tragedy is second-hand" (157), according to the author in "Pain Tours (II)"?
(a) Susan Sontag.
(b) James Wood.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) John Irving.

4. What Beatles' song does the author describe hearing on the loudspeakers at a Bolivian supermarket in 2007 in "Pain Tours (II)"?
(a) "Hey Jude."
(b) "Hey Madonna."
(c) "Yellow Submarine."
(d) "Black Bird."

5. At what prison was Charlie Engle housed when the author visited him in "Fog Count"?
(a) Bastrop.
(b) Sing Sing.
(c) Beckley.
(d) Angola.

Short Answer Questions

1. The number of inmates in West Virginia is how many times the number in 1990?

2. Who is "the little girl who hates evil" (145) in "Fog Count"?

3. What is the opening line for the character of Stephanie Phillips, according to the narrative in "The Empathy Exams" (11)?

4. Where is Lenny said to be from in "Devil's Bait"?

5. What word from "The Empathy Exams" refers to the theory that the self is all that can be known to exist?

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