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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 185 – 228; [From the ceiling…]; Paradoxical Effects (Jane).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What real-life events did Jonathan’s therapist see in his feelings about the Ziegler story?
(a) His marital indiscretion.
(b) His parents’ death.
(c) His son’s birth.
(d) His wife’s illness.

2. What made Jane see that her Christmas gift was not, in fact, special?
(a) She received the same thing as a gift again.
(b) Her mother told her what happened.
(c) She saw an identical thing years later.
(d) Her father confessed to blowing the Christmas money.

3. How did Darren believe he acquired magic powers?
(a) By repeating a chant.
(b) By entering a dark cave.
(c) By rubbing poison ivy.
(d) By kissing a girl.

4. What did Fred Phelps’ family call Jane Gordon?
(a) The misanthrope.
(b) The seductress.
(c) Medusa.
(d) The brain.

5. Who was Adam shopping with when he ran into one of Reynolds’ friends?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) His mother and grandmother.
(c) Amber.
(d) Sima.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the music and the skating suggested to Darren and his friends?

2. How does Adam’s mother characterize the author of the purple cow lyric?

3. What does the narrator say the Topekans feel about Fred Phelps?

4. What issue did the Westboro Baptist Church protest?

5. Who invited Darren to stay and have a beer at Ron Williams’ place?

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