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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In "While It Lasts," who is hosting the dinner party?
(a) George.
(b) Bonnie.
(c) Isabel.
(d) Richard.
2. In "Café Mort," what is true of all of the employees?
(a) They are figments of the narrator's imagination.
(b) They are in limbo.
(c) They are dead.
(d) They are in mourning.
3. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what causes Ned to believe that the big man on the subway will not be willing to help him?
(a) The man looks right through him like he is not there.
(b) The man turns away and refuses to make eye contact.
(c) The man seems to know the woman who is abducting Ned.
(d) The man laughs at him.
4. In "Café Mort," what does the woman with purple fingers complain about?
(a) The cold.
(b) The coffee.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Mosquitoes.
5. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what temporarily makes Ned feel safer?
(a) The woman tells him that she will let him use her phone.
(b) The woman stops at a bodega for cigarettes.
(c) The woman calls him "sugar."
(d) The woman tells him that she does not want to hurt him.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "While It Lasts," what does George compliment Isabel on?
2. In "Café Mort," who comes in with the electrocuted woman?
3. In "Why I Don't Write," what feeling does the narrator say "used to have a ragged pain, sometimes wafty, sometimes sharp as needles" (70)?
4. In "Why I Don't Write," which author does the narrator say stopped writing poetry at 21?
5. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what sport is Ned involved in?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Why I Don't Write," what types of repetition are used in the page 69 paragraph "Cleaning out the closets. Cleaning out the drawers. Clearing out the basement," and what effect does the device create?
2. In "Café Mort," what does the narrator mean when, on page 89, she says "It's always an endless night"?
3. In "Why I Don't Write," what is the page 69 phrase "The thumping far below the floor" an allusion to, and what is its thematic significance?
4. In "Café Mort," what does her experience at the café teach the narrator about being "lucky" in life?
5. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what alternative place to stay is available to Ned, and why does he prefer to stay with his aunt?
6. In "Café Mort," why would some of the waitresses be "proud" of their jobs (89)?
7. In "While It Lasts," what subject does Isabel keep making bitter jokes about, and why does she do this?
8. In "Café Mort," what evidence is there that the narrator is ready to leave her grief behind even before Anita speaks to her?
9. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what television show does Ned secretly watch? Why does he enjoy it?
10. In "Boston Common at Twilight," what clues does Minot offer that the woman in the park might be biologically male?
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