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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. Who received two apologies from the artist?
(a) The Ex-girlfriend.
(b) The Daughter.
(c) The Second Ex-Wife.
(d) The Former Personal Assistant.

2. What did the Model/Actress understand about the volcano?
(a) It was dangerous to the artist because he never expected to actually be in it.
(b) The artist had thought the liquid in the volcano would be cool, not hot.
(c) The artist did not know what it really was.
(d) The artist was sure someone would push him in.

3. Who does Vera end up leaving William with?
(a) Harry.
(b) Ben.
(c) Eileen.
(d) Derek.

4. Where was the Institute for Public History located?
(a) The basement of an office in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
(b) New York City.
(c) Near the most famous bridge in Chicago.
(d) The back corridor of a brutalist building in Washington D.C.

5. About how many people work at the IPH?
(a) 200.
(b) 40.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the company Vera works for?

2. Whose arm did the artist once leave a bruise on?

3. What had the artist failed to understand about the Model/Actress from when they had been together?

4. Who does Genie marry?

5. Why does Genevieve tell Cassie her teachers tell Cassie she is a good poet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the model/actress find some freedom in with the artist?

2. How would you describe the effect of the artist's misdeeds on the various women in the story Why Won't Women Just Say What They Want?

3. What was the core of the idea behind the creation of the Institute for Public History?

4. How does Vera first meet William in the story Anything Could Disappear?

5. How does Daniel react when Cassie tells him she is about to travel to do a clarification on one of Genevieve's corrections?

6. Why does Vera have the opportunity to start a real new life with William?

7. What characterizes the famous artist's "apologies?"

8. What is one of the biggest differences between how Genevieve does her job and how Cassie does hers at the IPH?

9. What does the artist title his show after his disappearance, and why does this title seem ironic?

10. In the story Why Won't Women Just Say What They Want, what had everyone heard about the genius artist in recent years?

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