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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 75 – 143.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "USCIS" refer to in the narrative?
(a) United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
(b) United States Confederate Illiteracy Services.
(c) United States Cultural and Immigration Standards.
(d) United States Creationism and Idealization Services.

2. What album is depicted on Natasha's phone cover?
(a) "Disentigration."
(b) "The White Album."
(c) "Head Like a Hole."
(d) "Nevermind."

3. What is the name of Natasha's father?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Michael.
(d) James.

4. What is the first question from Category #2 (medium intimacy) that Daniel and Natasha choose to ask one another?
(a) How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?
(b) Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?
(c) Would you like to be famous?
(d) What is your most treasured memory?

5. Where does Natasha say she has been getting application materials ready for when she talks with the USCIS agent in the beginning of the novel?
(a) NYU.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Brooklyn College.
(d) Berkeley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Bob Marley song is Peter listening to as he packs his suitcase in the beginning of the novel?

2. From what narrative perspective is “Irene: A History" related?

3. When she is asked about how she surmises she will die, Natasha tells Daniel that as a black woman living in the United States, she is most likely to die from what condition?

4. What chemicals in the brain orchestrate the stages of love, according to the narrator in “Love: A Chemical History”?

5. What is the name of Daniel's father?

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