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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lawns by Mona Simpson.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For the most part, what is one thing the narrator say determines what the soldiers carried with them?
(a) Orders.
(b) Nutrition.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Medical requirements.

2. What does the narrator of Men Under Water do for a living?
(a) He is a handyman and general helper.
(b) He is an experienced playwriter.
(c) He is an actor.
(d) He is poet.

3. What unusual injury befalls Terrence Weber in Emergency?
(a) His wife stabs him in the eye.
(b) His wife stabs him in the heart.
(c) His wife stabs him in the leg.
(d) His wife stabs him in the stomach.

4. What does Louise have hidden in the back of her closet behind her stuffed animals?
(a) Colas.
(b) Candy.
(c) Pictures of thin women.
(d) Books on dieting.

5. Who are Evie and Lydia?
(a) Margaret's sisters.
(b) Margaret's best friends.
(c) Margaret's granddaughters.
(d) Margaret's daughters.

Short Answer Questions

1. As A Vintage Thunderbird opens, who are the people driving from Virginia to New York?

2. When did Emily first meet Willi Varig?

3. In The Things They Carried, what does First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carry with him in Vietnam?

4. Where do Gunther and the narrator meet in the morning?

5. In The Things They Carried, how does Ted Lavendar die?

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