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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "Why I Don't Write" and "While It Lasts".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Torch," the detail about the husband having watched his wife's face go through many changes is probably included in order to establish what?
(a) Although a person's face changes over time, at heart they stay the same.
(b) He really is her husband and they have been together for many years.
(c) Sometimes the ways that people change in a marriage end up hurting the relationship.
(d) As she has changed over the years, he has gradually grown to love her.

2. In "Polepole," what does his servant's wife call "the man"?
(a) Mistah T.
(b) Uncle T.
(c) Baba.
(d) Bwana.

3. On page 38 of "Occupied," which phrase describes how Ivy feels when she plays with her son?
(a) "Unguarded and trusting."
(b) "Ironically unengaged."
(c) "A robotic performer."
(d) "White with light."

4. In "Occupied," Ivy sees a "doppelgänger." What does she see?
(a) A puppet or dummy that has an eerily lifelike quality.
(b) Someone who looks like the twin of an unrelated person.
(c) The hallucination of a disembodied spirit.
(d) A statue of a mythological creature.

5. In "Why I Don't Write," what claim is implied by the list of female authors Jane Austen, Flannery O'Connor, and the Brontes?
(a) Women often start writing later in life than do men.
(b) Women are better writers when they write in isolation.
(c) Staying unmarried frees women to write.
(d) Female writers often depend on someone else for money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Occupied," what does Ivy think about the protest encampment when she first sees it?

2. On page 71 of "Why I Don't Write," of which author does the narrator say, "Open any page...and have the top of your head taken off"?

3. In "Green Glass," what is implied by Tom's assertion that his breakup with his ex was a mutual decision?

4. On page 84 of "While It Lasts," what does Mr. Buffy tell Bonnie and George about love?

5. In "Green Glass," what assumption does Tom make about Fran's relationship with the lawyer?

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