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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Café Mort" and "Boston Common at Twilight".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Why I Don't Write," what does the narrator say "used ot be more awful" (72)?
(a) Hope.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Despair.

2. In "Café Mort," what does the woman with purple fingers complain about?
(a) The cold.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) The coffee.

3. In "Café Mort," which waitress has been at the café the longest?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Karen.
(c) Rita.
(d) Maggie.

4. In "Why I Don't Write," what claim is made about the impact of having children on female writers?
(a) It makes them more creative.
(b) It is an obstacle to their success.
(c) It deepens the emotion of their work.
(d) It focuses their writing too narrowly.

5. In "Occupied," what does Ivy think about the protest encampment when she first sees it?
(a) It looks like a similar encampment that she was once a part of.
(b) It is smaller and less impressive than the pictures make it look.
(c) The protesters seem suspiciously friendly with the police guarding the perimeter.
(d) There are more people in the camp than she was aware of.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Occupied," what topical event is alluded to in the page 35 sign that says "Now it is 'spring' all over the world"?

2. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what is Ned's reason for going to Boston Common?

3. In "Occupied," when Ivy sees the labeled boxes of books, what book category does she wonder if she will ever see?

4. In "Why I Don't Write," what city is the narrator invited to visit?

5. On page 66 of "Why I Don't Write," what is ironic about the diagnosis of the computer problem "Your system must be overloaded"?

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