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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III, “1. I Watch Her Eat the Apple” to “9. Of Course She Looked Back”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following terms does the narrator’s father use to refer to methamphetamine?
(a) Speed.
(b) White cross.
(c) Dope.
(d) Crank.

2. Which of the following kinds of orange does the narrator of “I Lean Out the Window and She Nods Off in Bed, the Needle Gently Rocking on the Bedside Table” report painting on her lover?
(a) Mandarin.
(b) Hamlin.
(c) Marrs.
(d) Valencia.

3. Which of the following is the first line of “No More Cake Here”?
(a) “When my brother died.”
(b) “My brother’s shadow flutters from his shoulders, a magician’s cape.”
(c) “Thaïs has burst my shirt to flames, you say.”
(d) “Houdini arrived first, with Antigone on his arm.”

4. Which of the following is the first line of “Reservation Grass”?
(a) “Betsy Ross needled hot stars to Mr. Washington’s bedspread.”
(b) “We smoke more grass than we ever promise to plant.”
(c) “I found your blue suitcases.”
(d) “Corned beef comes on the first of every month.”

5. On which of the following roads does the narrator stop in “Formication”?
(a) Highway 95.
(b) Highway 66.
(c) Interstate 10.
(d) Interstate 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator refer to as a drummer?

2. Which of the following does the narrator associate with the headdress of a greedy god?

3. To which of the following does the narrator compare herself in “How to Go to Dinner with a Brother on Drugs”?

4. Which of the following gaming systems does the narrator note as strewn across her parents’ floor?

5. In posing a hypothetical about God, which of the following games does the narrator posit God might invent?

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