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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 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 Diet Coke cans.
(d) Empty Girl Scout cookie boxes.

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

3. Who wrote "The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) David Foster Wallace.
(c) Jim Fyke.
(d) John Irving.

4. In the author's assessment of Frida Kahlo's works she calls what color "the undergarments of ghosts" (152)?
(a) Dusty pink.
(b) Bright yellow.
(c) Dark crimson.
(d) Coral.

5. Where is Frozen Head State Park located?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) West Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have completed the Barkley Marathon that the author attended in "The Immortal Horizon"?

2. Who wrote Madame Bovary and is quoted in the opening in of "In Defense of Saccharin(e)"?

3. Who were the New York filmmakers that created the Paradise Lost trilogy?

4. 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)"?

5. Who is described as Cat's boyfriend in "Fog Count"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author compare sentimentality and artificial sweeteners in "In Defense of Saccharine(e)"?

2. How is Jim described in "In Defense of Saccharine(e)"?

3. How does the author describe the word "saccharine" in the opening of "In Defense of Saccharine(e)"?

4. How is Jessie's confession described in "Lost Boys"?

5. Who were the West Memphis Three, and what were they charged with?

6. The author gives "Some Important Dates in the History of Artificial Sugar" in "In Defense of Saccharine(e)." What are these dates and events?

7. How does the author describe Charlie when she first sees him in "Fog Count"?

8. What happened during Andrew Thompson's run at the Barkley Marathons in 2004?

9. Why was the author looking for quarters in her narrative in "Fog Count"?

10. What did Cat tell the author about the history of West Virginia in "Fog Count"?

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