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Z. Z. Packer, Geese

Z. Z. Packer, Geese

Read Geese and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Where is Dina at the beginning of the story?

Philadelphia

Baltimore

Tokyo

China

2. What is Chong’s?

a local Chinese restaurant

a pawn shop

a convenience store located on the corner of Dina’s block

a friend’s apartment that Dina often visits abroad

3. What does the flock of geese remind Dina of near the end of the piece?

kamikaze lanes she read about as a child

running away from her family as a child

summers in Baltimore

the innocence of childhood

4. Who are Petra and Zoltan?

Ari and Dina’s roommates

Dina’s coworkers

Dina’s childhood friends who come to visit

Ari’s neighbors

5. What are the two types of hunger?

“One that slowly kills your body, and one that slowly kills your soul.”

“One in which you feel a burning in your belly, the other in which your bones ache.”

“One in which you hide inside yourself, and one in which you share your empty gut with the world.”

“One in which you would do anything for food, the other in which you could not bring yourself to complete the smallest task for it.”