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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Charlie Engle's teenage sons live when he was imprisoned?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Texas.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Washington.

2. Who is the Aymara god of abundance?
(a) Ekeko.
(b) Viracocha.
(c) Inti.
(d) Wayra Tata.

3. 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.

4. What IQ is Jeesie said to have in "Lost Boys"?
(a) 89.
(b) 115.
(c) 72.
(d) 112.

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

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

7. Where in West Virginia does the author describe hunting for quarters in "Fog Count"?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Huntington.
(c) Morgantown.
(d) Fayetteville.

8. How many miles did Charlie run around the prison's gravel track in July to coincide with the Badwater Ultramarathon in July, according to the narrative in "Fog Count"?
(a) 135.
(b) 115.
(c) 28.
(d) 102.

9. Who did James Earl Ray assassinate?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Robert Kennedy.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

10. What is the entry fee for the Barkley Marathons?
(a) $14.
(b) $12.50.
(c) $65.
(d) $1.60.

11. Who once said, "You are a little soul carrying around a corpse" (113)?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Epicetus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aeschelus.

12. Where has Julian brought a license plate from to the Barkley Marathons in "The Immortal Horizon"?
(a) Nicaragua.
(b) Liberia.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Bolivia.

13. Who is said to have completed the Barkley Marathon that the author attended in "The Immortal Horizon"?
(a) JB.
(b) Julian.
(c) Blake.
(d) Roger.

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

15. Where is Carl said to be from in "The Immortal Horizon"?
(a) Jacksonville.
(b) Little Rock.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Atlanta.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Fortune magazine tell Agee to write a journalistic piece about sharecroppers in the Deep South, according to the author in "Pain Tours (II)"?

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

3. Who is the maid in Madame Bovary?

4. What philosopher calls sentimentality a "disease of the feelings" (115)?

5. Who wrote "Tragedy is second-hand" (157), according to the author in "Pain Tours (II)"?

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