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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has become a "bitterness" for the narrator if "Iseult of Brittany"?
(a) Her lost love.
(b) Her deep pride.
(c) Her frail cup.
(d) Her lovely hands.

2. What does Hazel ask Nettie to do for her after her suicide attempt?
(a) To get the phone number of the doctor.
(b) To help her into a hot bath.
(c) To get her a drink.
(d) To throw out the rest of the pills and dump out the Scotch.

3. According to the narrator, what does Edith look like?
(a) Something that crawled out of the alley.
(b) Something that should be pulling a cart.
(c) Something that should be kept in a cage.
(d) Something that would eat her young.

4. Who is the one woman who hates Hobie?
(a) His sister.
(b) His ex-wife.
(c) His mother.
(d) His daughter.

5. What message does the poem "Men" convey?
(a) Men may drive women crazy, but they still need each other.
(b) Men will claim to love a woman as she is, but then try to change her.
(c) Men are only interested in a woman's outward appearance.
(d) Men try to understand women, but they never will.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to "From a Letter From Lesbia," why should you not take a poet as a lover?

3. For what is the narrator of "Sonnet For the End of a Sequence" grateful?

4. How does Mrs. Whittaker react to the news of her father's death?

5. In the story "New York to Detroit," Why does Jack suggest that Jean write him a letter?

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