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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe writing papers about when she began graduate school in "Morphology of the Hit"?
(a) The practice of empathy.
(b) The practice of rereading.
(c) The practice of organization.
(d) The practice of medical writing.

2. How far along is Leslie in her pregnancy in the script she presents for herself in "The Empathy Exams"?
(a) 6 and 1/2 weeks.
(b) 3 and 1/2 weeks.
(c) 7 and 1/2 weeks.
(d) 5 and 1/2 weeks.

3. What is the statue called that the author describes passing on her way out from the mining tour in "Pain Tours (I)"?
(a) Tio.
(b) Leo.
(c) El Torro.
(d) Diablo.

4. The diagnosis of Morgellons disease began with a woman named Mary Leitao who took her son to a doctor in what year based on symptoms?
(a) 1995.
(b) 2005.
(c) 1989.
(d) 2001.

5. Who wrote "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick" (37)?
(a) Thomas Huxley.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Susan Sontag.
(d) Adam Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as the highest city in the world in "Pain Tours (I)"?

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

3. When did the CDC release the results of the study "Clinical, Epidemiologic, Histopathologic and Molecular Features of an Unexplained Dermopathy"?

4. When did Leslie and Dave first kiss, according to the author's narrative in "The Empathy Exams"?

5. Who designed and built Watts Towers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Flarf poetry?

2. How does the author describe Tijuana in "La Frontera"?

3. How is the tour described in "Indigenous to the Hood" in "Pain Tours (I)"?

4. Why was the author traveling to Mexico in "La Frontera"?

5. What did the author do after the central event occurred in "Morphology of the Hit"?

6. Where did Morgellons originate, according to the author in "Devil's Bait"?

7. How does the author describe "The Australian" (38) in "Devil's Bait"?

8. How does the author describe the television show's camera work in "Pain Tours (I)"?

9. What television show is described in the section called "Sublime, Revised" in "Pain Tours (I)"?

10. How does the author demonstrate the American tendency to generalize Mexico in "La Frontera"?

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