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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 "Café Mort," what attitude is more common among the late-night customers?
(a) Distraction.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Satisfaction.

2. In "Green Glass," how does Fran feel about herself once she meets Tom's ex?
(a) She feels ridiculous for being jealous.
(b) She feels less attractive, by comparison.
(c) She wonders if she is as sensitive as Tom says she is.
(d) She wonders if she really understands her own feelings for Tom.

3. In "Café Mort," what does the narrator guess about Maggie?
(a) That she will quit soon.
(b) That she is unaware that the patrons are dead.
(c) That she is an orphan.
(d) That she is in love with one of the cooks.

4. In "Polepole," what does the Swahili "polepole" mean?
(a) I do not know you.
(b) Be happy.
(c) Liar.
(d) Take it slow.

5. In "Occupied," what topical event is alluded to in the page 35 sign that says "Now it is 'spring' all over the world"?
(a) Spring break.
(b) The idiomatic expression "spring fever."
(c) The Arab Spring.
(d) Wedekind's play Spring Awakening.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "While It Lasts," what does George compliment Isabel on?

2. In "Polepole," what does "the man" do when the boy spits at him?

3. In "Polepole," what detail about "the man's" life does he claim he thought that Bragg would already have told Daisy?

4. In "The Torch," where did the husband first see the woman who would become his wife?

5. In "Polepole," what does Daisy notice on the ride home that she did not notice the evening before?

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