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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Daphne tell her husband to be prepared for in the casinos of Altavista?
(a) Fried everything.
(b) Carnival music.
(c) Downtrodden white people.
(d) Layers of stale cigarette smoke.

2. What prevents Daphne from hearing more about American Exceptionalism?
(a) She has to change Honey’s diaper.
(b) The minister is interrupted in the sermon.
(c) A sneezing fit.
(d) Honey falls and starts crying.

3. When does Daphne find common ground with Ed?
(a) When she says that America is the best country in the world.
(b) When she says that the U.S. should hammer ISIS.
(c) When she says that ISIS will collapse of its own ineptitude.
(d) When she says that Engin is against ISIS.

4. What common ground did Daphne find with Engin when she took him to Altavista?
(a) He felt the same nostalgia for the frontier.
(b) He understood the landscape.
(c) He missed the same things from the city.
(d) He appreciated the people there.

5. How does Daphne characterize marriage?
(a) A lovely delusion.
(b) An act of desperation.
(c) An act of faith.
(d) A risk.

6. Where does Daphne say she and her mother had a service for her father?
(a) Athens.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Bulgaria.

7. What does Daphne say diplomacy requires?
(a) Lying.
(b) Brutal honesty.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Dissembling.

8. Where does Daphne find wifi signal when she gets to Altavista?
(a) In her car.
(b) The corner of her porch.
(c) Outside the town library.
(d) In the attic.

9. What kind of house does Daphne have in Altavista?
(a) Double-wide trailer.
(b) Cape.
(c) Farmhouse.
(d) Ranch house.

10. What happened five months ago?
(a) Her husband Engin was deported.
(b) Her father moved to Greece.
(c) Her mother died.
(d) She lost her job.

11. What Daphne describe as giving her the greatest sense of well-being available?
(a) Snuggling with Honey.
(b) Recalling Engin’s kisses.
(c) Smoking after Honey is asleep.
(d) Lying in bed alone.

12. What does Daphne hope to find at Sal’s Café?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Cinnamon buns.
(c) Wireless internet.
(d) Danish.

13. What does the message say, that Daphne gets once her phone has service?
(a) Give a call and update me.
(b) Call me it’s an emergency.
(c) We need your help with an urgent matter.
(d) When are you coming back to work.

14. For how long out of every month does Daphne say she feels like a “physical threat” to every man she sees (87)?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

15. How many Muslims does Daphne say there are in the world?
(a) 200 million.
(b) 1 billion.
(c) 500 million.
(d) 3 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the message from, on Daphne’s phone, once they reach a place that has signal?

2. Where does Daphne say her father died?

3. What is Cindy Cooper’s relation to Ed van Voorhees?

4. What does Daphne buy at the grocery store that she remembers from visiting her grandparents?

5. What does Daphne say will be the downfall of the State of Jefferson movement?

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