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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. How old was Frida Kahlo when she married Diego Rivera?
(a) 18.
(b) 27.
(c) 25.
(d) 22.
2. How old is John DeWitt described as in "The Immortal Horizon"?
(a) 73.
(b) 75.
(c) 69.
(d) 65.
3. What was Lazarus Lake's name when he was born?
(a) Andrew Ross.
(b) James Watson.
(c) Michael Moore.
(d) Gary Cantrell.
4. Who are Michael Moore's parents?
(a) Mike and Angela Moore.
(b) Mark and Amy Moore.
(c) Todd and Dana Moore.
(d) James and Jenna Moore.
5. Who wrote the 1979 op-ed called "In Defense of Sentimentality"?
(a) David Foster Wallace.
(b) Jim Fyke.
(c) Edmund Burke.
(d) John Irving.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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"?
2. What does the author assert James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is ultimately about, in "Pain Tours (II)"?
3. Who did James Earl Ray assassinate?
4. When were Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera married?
5. What Beatles' song does the author describe hearing on the loudspeakers at a Bolivian supermarket in 2007 in "Pain Tours (II)"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who originated the Barkley Marathons? How is this individual described?
2. What statement is the author making in "Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain"?
3. Who were the West Memphis Three, and what were they charged with?
4. Why was the author looking for quarters in her narrative in "Fog Count"?
5. Who wrote Almost Home? How is it described in the book?
6. How does the author describe the word "saccharine" in the opening of "In Defense of Saccharine(e)"?
7. What happened during Andrew Thompson's run at the Barkley Marathons in 2004?
8. How does the author compare sentimentality and artificial sweeteners in "In Defense of Saccharine(e)"?
9. Where do the Barkley Marathons take place? How is this setting described?
10. How does the author describe the line between pathos and melodrama in "In Defense of Saccharine(e)"?
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