2. Where does one take the bus after landing in El Alto in order to reach the highest city in the world?
(a) Ororu.
(b) Tarja.
(c) Sucre.
(d) La Paz.

3. What Shakespearean play does the author reference in relation to her infection by a human botfly in "Devil's Bait"?
(a) Othello.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

4. How old is Andrea described on the show Intervention in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) 29.
(b) 32.
(c) 22.
(d) 45.

5. Who wrote "What is Wrong with Sentimentality?"
(a) Michael Tanner.
(b) Adam Smith.
(c) Mark Jefferson.
(d) James Wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Where does Leslie describe going to have an abortion performed in "The Empathy Exams"?

3. What does the author say there was nothing of in the attack when she was punched in "Morphology of the Hit"?

4. Who wrote the 1979 op-ed called "In Defense of Sentimentality"?

5. What is Paola's profession said to be in "La Frontera"?

(see the answer key)

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