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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 was the purple cow lyric used for?
(a) Teaching Adam about colors.
(b) Getting Adam to bed.
(c) Teaching Adam to read.
(d) Making Adam and his mother laugh together.

2. What caused Jane to start to receive obscene and threatening phone calls?
(a) Her lectures on homosexuality.
(b) Her book about abuse.
(c) Her promotion to department head.
(d) Her taking Jonathan away from Rachel.

3. How does the narrator characterize the state of American culture?
(a) Lost boys without parents.
(b) Seven lost generations.
(c) Relentlessly cruel innovation.
(d) Adolescence without end.

4. What issue did the Westboro Baptist Church protest?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Government regulations.
(c) Abortion.
(d) War.

5. Where is Ziegler carted away to, at the end of the story?
(a) An insane asylum.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A police station.
(d) A zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Darren’s skating ability at the roller rink?

2. What character in American literature does Jonathan compare his patient/film intern to?

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

4. How does Jonathan characterize the Topeka Foundation?

5. What kind of signs does Adam say his classmates exchanged?

(see the answer key)

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