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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Fog Count".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote, "A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it" (113)?
(a) Vladimir Propp.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) Adam Smith.

2. Who attempted to shut down the Barkley Marathons due to erosion and endangered plants?
(a) Jim Fyke.
(b) Jack Adkins.
(c) Graham Huggan.
(d) Adam Smith.

3. Where did Blake Wood earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

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

5. Where did Leslie Jamison earn her Ph.D. in English literature?
(a) NYU.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Andrew Thompson finally complete the Barkley Marathons?

2. How many men have finished the race at the Barkley Marathons, according to the author in "The Immortal Horizon"?

3. Where did the author teach Spanish to kids in Nicaragua?

4. The word "saccharine" traces back to what Sanskrit word?

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

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