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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mona say is wrong with her?
(a) She has influenza.
(b) She has a broken heart.
(c) It is just her nerves.
(d) She has ptomaine poisoning.

2. Who is Garry McVicker?
(a) The doctor who performed Mona's "procedure."
(b) Mona's servant who is looking after her.
(c) A man that the narrator would like Mona to meet.
(d) The man who left Mona for another woman.

3. What is the narrator's intent in the poem "Lullaby"?
(a) Put a fussy baby to sleep.
(b) Sooth herself over a lost love.
(c) Quiet her lover so he will not ask about her betrayals.
(d) Make a pretty woman fall asleep so that she can get the men herself.

4. What sight causes Hazel to lose her high spirits as she is on her way to meet Art?
(a) A drunken old man stumbling along the street.
(b) A mangy dog shivering behind a pile of trash.
(c) An emaciated child begging on the street corner.
(d) A ragged cart horse being beaten by its driver.

5. How do both Mrs. Weldon and Mr. Weldon feel about their apartment?
(a) Both like the apartment, but they assume that the other dislikes it.
(b) Mr. Weldon likes the apartment, but Mrs. Weldon dislikes it.
(c) Both dislike the apartment, but they assume that the other likes it.
(d) Mrs. Weldon likes the apartment, but Mr. Weldon dislikes it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Verse for a Certain Dog," what is the difference between the lines inside the parentheses and those not in parentheses?

2. Why does Gerald Cruger avoid looking at Miss Wilmarth in the story "Horsie"?

3. In "Social Note," what advice does the narrator give to women who are seduced by "discreet" men?

4. In the poem "Paths," with whom does the narrator walk?

5. What disturbing news does the narrator give to Mona?

(see the answer key)

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