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

2. What did Genevieve get a reputation for that became a problem at IPH?
(a) She got in physical fights often.
(b) Whenever an atrocity was noted in a historical monument, she wanted to name not only the victims but the killers.
(c) She did not complete her work.
(d) She often had inaccurate historical facts.

3. Who does Genie marry?
(a) James Harmon III.
(b) Harold Senor.
(c) Marshall Mellon.
(d) William Wallington.

4. Where does the term The Office Of Historical Corrections first originate?
(a) From the IPH itself.
(b) On social media.
(c) In the scathing op-ed of a major newspaper.
(d) From a white supremacist group.

5. What does Vera deliver to Adam and Derek from Josh in New York City?
(a) Guns.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Endangered animals.
(d) Pornography.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cassie think Genie felt about her when they were both children?

2. Where does Vera take William towards the end of the story on a bus together?

3. What were the artist's apologies like when they began?

4. Whose apology from the artist was in the form of a short film?

5. What bar in D.C. had a weekly hip-hop and classic rock dance party?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Genevieve's formerly perfect-seeming life changed?

2. What is Cassie's relationship with Daniel like?

3. What does Cassie do to try to avoid falling into routine in her new job at the Institute for Public History?

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What is the problem Cassie is sent to address in Cherry Mills?

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