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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Early Essays.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What secret does Netta reveal about Dorf?
(a) That he is really a dwarf.
(b) That she can breathe fire.
(c) That she is a man.
(d) That she loves his brother.

2. What is it that Dorf is trying to get from his brother?
(a) A large bag of tools.
(b) His father's hereditary disease.
(c) His family's chocolate chip cookie recipe.
(d) A treasure map.

3. Who helped catch the Dusseldorf Strangler?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Marx.
(c) Londos.
(d) Shafari.

4. What does Kaiser find the girls studying when he arrives at Flossie's call-girl center of operations?
(a) They are studying Penguin classics.
(b) They are watching PBS.
(c) They are reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
(d) They are reading the Wall Street Journal and other prestigious periodicals.

5. Why does Abraham believe that the command to sacrifice his son has come from God?
(a) Because the voice he heard was deep, resonant, and well-modulated, and therefore must be God's.
(b) Because he saw God when he commanded it.
(c) Because God sent him a letter and signed it at the bottom.
(d) Because he just does.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hedvig thought to be a representation of in Lovborg's real life?

2. How much money is Flossie blackmailing Word for?

3. How many scenes are in the play "A Day in the Life of a Doe"?

4. In which of the essays is morality discussed?

5. What conclusion does Allen come to in "On Tripping Through a Copse Picking Violets"?

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