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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 is the name of the company Vera works for?
(a) Harlem Speedy.
(b) Brooklyn Delivers.
(c) Speedy Deliveries.
(d) Delivery Room.

2. Why does Cassie's boss send her to Cherry Mills?
(a) She is the most accurate historian on the team.
(b) She has a special area of expertise in deaths by fire.
(c) She has good sense and is not looking for attention.
(d) She knows how to handle Californians.

3. Who does Cassie stay with in Wisconsin?
(a) Mary.
(b) Henry.
(c) Elena.
(d) Nick.

4. Where does Vera find her first apartment in New York?
(a) Queens.
(b) Lower Manhattan.
(c) Red Hook.
(d) Upper Manhattan.

5. What were the artist's apologies like when they began?
(a) Public and simultaneous.
(b) Long.
(c) Short.
(d) Formal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Josiah reportedly die?

2. What does Genevieve correct at the Kennedy Center?

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

4. Where does Vera run into Derek again after their first meeting?

5. What is the only think Genie drinks at her end of the year grad student party?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the story The Office of Historical Corrections, why does Cassie like brutalist architecture?

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

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

5. What does Vera ultimately decide to do with William?

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

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

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

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

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