The Portable Dorothy Parker Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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The Portable Dorothy Parker Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hazel purchase the bottles of veronal?
(a) To help her sleep at night.
(b) To help her commit suicide.
(c) To help her lose weight.
(d) To help her deal with the pains in her back.

2. How does Raymond guide himself as he walks to the end of the street?
(a) By using a stick that he moves in front of him as he walks.
(b) By remembering the direction and terrain.
(c) By feeling with his toe before he steps.
(d) By touching the broken fences along the sidewalk.

3. At the end of the story "Arrangement in Black and White," what detail of the dinner party is the woman eager to share with her husband?
(a) That the party host was rude to her.
(b) That she got to meet the singer Walter Williams.
(c) That she called Walter Williams "Mister."
(d) That she got to meet Katherine Burke.

4. According to Mrs. Whittaker, why has the Old Gentleman left all of his money to her?
(a) Because she and her husband will know how to take care of it.
(b) She is the oldest, so she has more claim to the money.
(c) He does not believe that his other children truly appreciate him.
(d) She and her husband helped him earn the money.

5. According to the young woman in "You Were Perfectly Fine," what was the most important thing that ever happened to her and the young man?
(a) The dinner party that they had been invited to the evening before.
(b) The taxi ride that they had taken around the park the evening before.
(c) The conversation that they are having about his drunken behavior.
(d) The challenge of dealing with his offensive and drunken actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does the narrator give to the six soldiers as they leave?

2. What animal is described in the poem "Parable for a Certain Virgin"?

3. In the poem "The Trifler," who would the narrator like to take as a lover?

4. Where would the narrator of "Distance" prefer to have her lover?

5. In "The New Love," how does the narrator regard her new lover?

(see the answer key)

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