QUIZ
1. What jobs did the author’s parents hold?
____a. The father was a janitor, and the mother was a waitress.
____b. The father was a professor, and the mother was a faculty wife.
____c. The father was a priest, and the mother was a professor.
____d. The father owned a store, and the mother worked in the store.
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White kind of dog accompanied the author to the library?
____a. a Saint Bernard
____b. a golden retriever
____c. a German shepherd
____d. a Great Dane
3. Before going to school, the author had been
____a. shy and lonely.
____b. undisciplined and disobedient.
____c. given to temper tantrums.
____d. a charming, lively child
4. How old is the author at the time of writing this essay?
____a. 56
____b. 86
____c. 26
____d. 36
5. To whom is the Williamstown of the author’s memory eerily accessible?
____a. to everyone who reads her memoir
____b. only to the author’s family
____c. only to the author
____d. to all little children
In the Valley of the Shadow
Carl Sagan
Quiz
1. How many times did the author face death?
_____ a. two times
_____ b. he never did
_____ c. five times
_____ d. six times
2. What does the author say he would love to believe but can't?
_____ a. That there is life after death
_____ b. That life exists on other planets
_____ c That miracles happen
_____ d. That medical doctors are not in medicine for the money
3. Whose bone marrow did the author receive in a transplant?
_____ a. His mother's
_____ b. His sister's
_____ c. His twin brother's
_____ d. An anonymous donor's found on the Internet
4. What movie did the author and his wife co-write and co-produce?
_____ a. Space Sluts in the Slammer
_____ b. Contact
_____ c. The Annihilation of Fish
_____ d. Pulp Fiction
5. The author frequently quotes William John Rogers. Who is he?
_____ a. A passenger who went down with the Titanic
_____ b. A poet
_____ c. A Victorian novelist
_____ d. A short story writer from New York
Coming Into Language
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Quiz
1. Why does the author land in prison the first time?
_____ a. He forged a check.
_____ b. A friend blamed him for raping the friend’s girlfriend.
_____ c. He would not explain a cut on his forearm.
_____ d. He failed a lie detector test about a murder.
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Harry, who was the author’s pen pal, sent him
_____ a. a popular spy novel.
_____ b. a book by Mary Baker Eddy.
_____ c. the Bible.
_____ d. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.
3. After serving time on death row, the author was moved to
______ a. the tier that housed the mentally disturbed.
______ b. a new prison in Georgia.
______ c. Mexico.
______ d. Alcatraz.
4. From the time he was seven, teachers had punished him by
_____ a. slapping his hand.
_____ b. making him write “I will do better” a hundred times.
_____ c. calling him “stupid.”
_____ d. making him write lines on the chalkboard.
5. At one point the author describes how some detectives in the county jail
_____ a. kicked some poor drunk to his knees.
_____ b. spit on a prostitute dying of AIDS.
_____ c. called a homeless woman “damned disgusting.”
_____ d. burned a runaway kid with a cigarette.
How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
Paul Roberts
Quiz
1. The composition assigned is on the subject of
_____ a. a special vacation.
_____ b. college football.
_____ c. a favorite teacher.
_____ d. your favorite U.S. President.
2. Which of the following was not advice given by the author?
_____ a. Get rid of obvious padding.
_____ b. Slip out of abstraction.
_____ c. Call a fool a fool.
_____ d. Choose subjects familiar to your reader.
3. The author says that students often "hedge" in their writing because they
_____ a. want to deceive the instructor.
_____ b. have not prepared for the essay.
_____ c. feel inexperienced and incompetent.
_____ d. are trying to imitate great writers.
4. Expressions such as "to all practical intents and purposes" are
_____ a. pat expressions.
_____ b. important guideposts for the reader.
_____ c. excessively intellectual.
_____ d. useful when developing an argument.
5. "Colored" words are words
_____ a. calculated to produce a picture.
_____ b. loaded with associations.
_____ c. used by black writers.
_____ d. not found in the dictionary.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Classification/Division
Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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