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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What memoir was published by Damien in 2005, according to the author in "Lost Boys"?
(a) Lost Boys.
(b) Caged Animal.
(c) Almost Home.
(d) Almost Normal.

2. What does the author assert James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is ultimately about, in "Pain Tours (II)"?
(a) Glory.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Love.

3. What philosopher calls sentimentality a "disease of the feelings" (115)?
(a) Jim Fyke.
(b) Adam Smith.
(c) Michael Tanner.
(d) Mark Jefferson.

4. What Beatles' song does the author describe hearing on the loudspeakers at a Bolivian supermarket in 2007 in "Pain Tours (II)"?
(a) "Black Bird."
(b) "Hey Madonna."
(c) "Yellow Submarine."
(d) "Hey Jude."

5. Who wrote Infinite Jest?
(a) David Foster Wallace.
(b) John Irving.
(c) Edmund Burke.
(d) Jim Fyke.

6. When did James Schlatter lick some amino acids off his fingertips and discover aspartame?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1981.

7. The number of inmates in West Virginia is how many times the number in 1990?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

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

9. Where did the author first meet Charlie Engle?
(a) The Boston Marathon.
(b) The Niagara Falls Marathon.
(c) The Barkley Marathons.
(d) The Dipsea Race.

10. When were Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera married?
(a) September 1, 1927.
(b) March 12, 1925.
(c) August 21, 1929.
(d) July 4, 1863.

11. What does the maid steal from her mistress to eat every night in Madame Bovary?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Mints.
(c) Apples.
(d) Cookies.

12. Who is "the little girl who hates evil" (145) in "Fog Count"?
(a) Jessica.
(b) Anna.
(c) Marie.
(d) Caitlin.

13. What does the author say she has an entire trash can in her kitchen full of in "In Defense of Saccharin(e)"?
(a) Empty Oreo cookie packages.
(b) Empty artificial sweetener packets.
(c) Empty Girl Scout cookie boxes.
(d) Empty Diet Coke cans.

14. Nearing what age was Charlie when the author visited him in prison in "Fog Count"?
(a) 60.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

15. When did James Earl Ray escape from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary?
(a) July 2, 1978.
(b) June 11, 1977.
(c) March 2, 1975.
(d) May 12, 1976.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. Who did James Earl Ray assassinate?

4. When are the visiting hours at the prison in "Fog Count"?

5. What novel does the author say she cannot help but think of when looking at Lazarus Lake in "The Immortal Horizon"?

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