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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lost Boys" - "Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Theory of Moral Sentiments?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Susan Sontag.
(c) Ann Marie Clover.
(d) Adam Smith.

2. Who wrote the 1979 op-ed called "In Defense of Sentimentality"?
(a) John Irving.
(b) Jim Fyke.
(c) David Foster Wallace.
(d) Edmund Burke.

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

4. How old was Stephanie Phillips's character when her father died, according to her script in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What program on the internet does the author describe where you can generate your own fairy tale?

2. To whom did the author give her lottery prize at the conference for Morgellons disease in "Devil's Bait"?

3. Who is the mother of Steve Branch?

4. What was Charlie convicted of, according to the author in "Fog Count"?

5. Where does the author describe seeing an ex-boyfriend who offered her a line of coke on someone's steamer trunk in "Morphology of the Hit"?

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