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How does Vladek convince the children in Sosnowiec that he is not Jewish?

What happens to the married couple the narrator meets at the beginning of “Schrodinger’s Cat”? 

What are the Spiegelmans forced to do when Mr. Motonowa returns home on a break from his employment in Germany?

In “Good Country People,” what is the young man selling when he visits the Hopewell’s?

According to Vladek, what is Mala’s primary concern in their marriage?

Why does Zinhle’s mother suggest she become pregnant?

Who is the petrified man?

For five of the following spot quotes, identify the author (1 point) and title (1 point) and discuss the significance (Complete sentences, 2 points) of this passage. Number each answer to indicate which quote you are working with.  I will only grade the first five answered. (4 pts. each) 1. Her face was almost purple. “You’re a Christian!” she hissed. “You’re a fine Christian! You’re just like them all—say one thing and do another. You’re a perfect Christian, you’re . . .” The boy’s mouth was set angrily. “I hope you don’t think,” he said in a lofty indignant tone, “that I believe in that crap! I may sell Bibles but I know which end is up and I wasn’t born yesterday and I know where I’m going!” 2. “Four women. I guess those women didn’t have the faintest notion at the time they’d be worth a hundred an’ twenty-five bucks apiece some day to Mrs. Pike. We ast her how old the fella was then, an’s she says he musta had one foot in the grave, at least. Can you beat it?”  3. . . .I never met a woman yet that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got. I once went out with a doll who said to me, “I am the glamorous type, I am the glamorous type!” I said, “so what?”  4. I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!—Don’t turn the light on!  5.      Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which  way does your beard point tonight?             (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and  feel absurd.)             Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely.   6. Out of the huts of history’s shameI rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.   7.  She hates him. Less than she should, because he is not as much of an enemy as she thought. But she still hates him, for making her choice so explicit. “Or stay yourself,” he says. “If they can’t adapt to you, and you won’t adapt to them, then you’d be welcome among us. Flexibility is part of what we are.”              8. “ . . .So! If the photon passes through, the trigger will be activated and the gun will fire. If the photon is deflected, the trigger will not be activated and the gun will not fire. Now, you put the cat in. The cat is in the box. You close the lid. You go away! You stay away! What happens?” Rover’s eyes were bright.            “The cat gets hungry?”

Which of the following is false regarding conditioned reinforcement?

Which experimental arrangement involves 2 initial link schedules available simultaneously with responding to each link transitioning to a mutually exclusive terminal link schedule signaled by different stimuli?