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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In “Watershed,” D’s husband frequently came home sick, and she needed what?
(a) An emergency appendectomy.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Brain surgery.
(d) An emergency hysterectomy.

2. In "The Angels," the speaker imagines what between the two angels, as she sleeps?
(a) A deck of playing cards.
(b) A candle.
(c) A book.
(d) A meal.

3. In “The United States Welcomes You,” the speaker questions the color of what?
(a) The person’s gender.
(b) The person’s age.
(c) The person’s skin.
(d) The person’s religion.

4. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” the man steps back and falls down. He then describes what?
(a) A time he used to care about others.
(b) A time he slept outside a station and was woken up by someone urinating on him; he was then beaten with a metal rod.
(c) His ill wife.
(d) A time he beat up a homeless man asleep at a train station.

5. In "Deadly," what two creatures are discussed?
(a) A vulture and a buzzard.
(b) A tiger and a lion.
(c) Man and woman.
(d) A tiger and man.

Short Answer Questions

1. “New Road Station” begins by talking about what?

2. Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation" tells of the families destroyed how?

3. In “Theatrical Improvisation,” a woman stands in fear as she remembers what?

4. In “Watershed,” it is revealed that the company decided against what, and chose to pay a low-level employee for inexpensive land for a landfill?

5. The character in "Hill Country" climbs back into the jeep and drives off back to where?

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