quiz
1. This essay compares and contrasts
_____ a. two different approaches to peaceful human death.
_____ b. Athens and Rome, representing two religions.
_____ c. the death of a priest with the death of a native.
_____ d. the foods eaten by Christians and native islanders.
2. What regulation did Father Choblet break?
_____ a. the regulation against hunting baby seals
_____ b. the regulation against trying to convert the natives
_____ c. the regulation against canoe voyages between islands
_____ d. the regulation against drinking liquor
3. What heroic deed was performed by Tabanaora?
_____ a. He walked over red hot coals.
_____ b. He saved ten people from drowning in a canoe.
_____ c. He sucked snake poison out of a child’s arm.
_____ d. He had a duel with a tiger shark.
4. What did Tabanaora do to save Tebina from everlasting extinction?
_____ a. He had to recover a limb for the death ritual.
_____ b. He had to find a priest who would baptize Tebina.
_____ c. He had to find Tebina a bride for his life in paradise.
_____ d. He had to bury him with a shark’s tooth.
5. What character trait did Father Choblet and Tabanora share?
_____ a. They were both angry men.
_____ b. They were both brave men.
_____ c. They were both easily frightened.
_____ d. They were both humorous.
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Lee Dembart
QUIZ
1. What position does the author favor with respect to mind and brain?
_____a. the biological position
_____b. the position supported by her university
_____c. the reductionist position
_____d. the position found in the New Testament
2. Somewhere in the brain, the physical sensation
_____a. is erased completely.
_____b. is turned into a mental sensation.
_____c. is directed toward the pancreas.
_____d. is transferred to the nerves of the body.
3. Asking where vision comes from is like asking
_____a. where clouds come from.
_____b. where hearing comes from.
_____c. where laughter comes from.
_____d. where consciousness comes from.
4. In one experiment, subjects were told to
_____a. bend their finger.
_____b. look up into the sky.
_____c. cross their eyes.
_____d. burst a balloon.
5. According to Jack D. Cowan,
_____a. biology can learn a lot from physics.
_____b. geophysics will some day tell us how the eye works.
_____c. physics is easy compared to biology.
_____d. the eye can be used without our understanding of how it works.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Process
How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank
John Steinbeck
Quiz
1. When did Mr. Hogan commit the crime?
_____ a. on Thanksgiving Eve
_____ b. on Christmas Day
_____ c. on Saturday before Labor Day
_____ d. on Easter Sunday
2. What was Mr. Hogan’s how to method for bank robbery?
_____ a. leave out the hullabaloo and hanky panky
_____ b. do it only at night
_____ c. concentrate on getting to know the teller
_____ d. take only the big unmarked bills
3. Who died the year that Mr. Hogan robbed the bank?
_____ a. Mr. Hogan’s mother
_____ b. Mrs. Hogan’s brother
_____ c. Mr. Hogan’s first born child
_____ d. Mrs. Hogan
4. What contest did Mr. Hogan’s children enter?
_____ a. a beauty contest
_____ b. a bicycle racing contest
_____ c. the “I Love America” essay contest
_____ d. a cookie baking contest
5. What kind of mask did Mr. Hogan wear during the bank robbery?
_____ a. a cardboard Mickey Mouse mask
_____ b. a Lone Ranger mask
_____ c. a Halloween mask
_____ d. a bandanna that covered his face
Tract
William Carlos Williams
Quiz
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According to the poem, what colors should not be used for a hearse?
______a. blue and yellow
______ b. green and pink
______ c. pink and purple
______ d. black and white
2. What, according to the poem, should a hearse be like?
______ a. embroidered with cushions
______ b. fancy and trimmed
______ c. rough and plain
______ d. motorized
3. What does the poet expressly ban from funerals?
______ a. mourners
______ b. parades
______ c. personal mementos of the deceased
______ d. wreaths and hothouse flowers
4. What does the poet suggest the hearse driver do?
______ a. drive the hearse with dignity
______ b. wear a silk hat
______ c. dress in black
______ d. hold the reins and walk beside the hearse
5. What sort of procession does the poem recommend for a funeral?
______ a. one in which the mourners follow in cars
______ b. one in which the mourners walk behind the hearse
______ c. one in which the mourners play music
______ d. one in which the mourners dress gaily
In the Garden of Childish Delights
Emily Fox Gordon
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