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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was stolen from the author when she was punched?
(a) Her wallet and camera.
(b) Her phone and bookbag.
(c) Her books.
(d) Her watch and ring.

4. Where did the author teach Spanish to kids in Nicaragua?
(a) Managua.
(b) Esteli.
(c) Grenada.
(d) Leon.

5. What is said to be the busiest land border in the world in "La Frontera"?
(a) Nuevo Leon.
(b) Sonora.
(c) Chihuahua.
(d) San Ysidro.

6. What is Paola's profession said to be in "La Frontera"?
(a) She is a publicist.
(b) She is a news anchor.
(c) She is a screenwriter.
(d) She is a playwright.

7. Who is the founder and guide of the Gang Tour, according to the author in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) Roger.
(b) Jack.
(c) Juan.
(d) Alfred.

8. Who was Stephanie Phillips's brother that drowned, according to her script in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) Jason.
(b) Will.
(c) Jack.
(d) Adam.

9. What does the author say there was nothing of in the attack when she was punched in "Morphology of the Hit"?
(a) Certainty.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Deception.
(d) Deliberation.

10. Who in "La Frontera" is described as "the Stewmaker" that dissolves his victims in acid?
(a) El Teo.
(b) El Chapo.
(c) El Pozolero.
(d) El Diablo.

11. 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)?
(a) Adam Smith.
(b) Susan Sontag.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Thomas Huxley.

12. What is the capital of Sinaloa?
(a) Guadalajara.
(b) Culiacan.
(c) Cancun.
(d) Merida.

13. How many classrooms were in the school where the author taught Spanish to kids in Nicaragua?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

15. What is described in "Pain Tours (I)" as a disease one calls "the uniting of dust in the lungs" (81)?
(a) Legionaire's.
(b) Tachycardia.
(c) Silicosis.
(d) Morgellons.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was the study "The Structure of Empathy" conducted that the author describes in "The Empathy Exams"?

4. In the conclusion of "Morphology of the Hit," the author writes, "Everything I find is stained by a certain residue" (78). What is the residue?

5. How many subjects were investigated for the study "Clinical, Epidemiologic, Histopathologic and Molecular Features of an Unexplained Dermopathy"?

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