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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 229 – 282; [Darren thinks of it…], Old English (Adam), Thematic Apperception (Adam).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Darren say he feels safe?
(a) In his house.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) In tunnels of brush.
(d) In Jonathan’s office.

2. What did Adam glimpse in the rap battle at the party at Jason’s house?
(a) Verbs as cutting tools.
(b) Rhetoric as a force of nature.
(c) Language as a blunt instrument.
(d) Grammar as pure possibility.

3. What was the first instance Jane recalled of watching herself ignore her own knowledge?
(a) Neglecting to buy airline tickets.
(b) Learning that her painted tissue box was a lie.
(c) Burying her memory of her father’s abuse.
(d) Reading during her graduate studies, which she did not realize she identified with.

4. What was it that changed Jonathan’s relationship with Sima?
(a) Jane’s book.
(b) Adam’s concussion.
(c) His research.
(d) Eric’s travel.

5. What does Ziegler find he can understand, once he take the pill?
(a) The language of music.
(b) The language of things.
(c) The language of animals.
(d) The language of clouds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jonathan’s therapist see in Jonathan’s fascination with the Ziegler story?

2. What does Adam say represented the “zenith of inclusion” (157)?

3. Where was Sima’s family from?

4. When does the narrator say the term overkill was coined?

5. What does Darren’s mother complain about?

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