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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author describe as liking "to kill at parties because it makes his message more visible" in "La Frontera" (63)?
(a) El Diablo.
(b) El Leo.
(c) El Teo.
(d) El Chapo.

2. What is the elevation of El Alto?
(a) 4,736 meters.
(b) 4,061 meters.
(c) 2,674 meters.
(d) 3,252 meters.

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

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

5. Who wrote Madame Bovary and is quoted in the opening in of "In Defense of Saccharin(e)"?
(a) Gustave Flaubert.
(b) Edmund Burke.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) Thomas Huxley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Dan Baglione when he ran the Barkley Marathons in 2006?

2. When did the Rodney King Riots take place?

3. For how long does the author say she's been corresponding with Charlie Engle when she goes to see him in prison in "Fog Count"?

4. Where does the author describe having huevos con jamon in Tijuana in "La Frontera"?

5. How many men are said to have been eaten by the mountain with the silver mines in "Pain Tours (I)"?

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