View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "After the Race".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator of "Araby" wait every day to see the girl he likes?
(a) At the mailbox.
(b) At his bedroom window.
(c) Behind the big tree on the corner.
(d) In the front parlor.

2. The narrator of "An Encounter" mentions that he prefers which genre of literature to the Wild West stories?
(a) American detective stories.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Stories of battles at sea.
(d) Pulp fiction.

3. Where is Eveline's mother?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She is dead.
(c) She is pulling up weeds in the garden.
(d) She is working in a factory.

4. In "The Sisters," who helped the dead man's sisters deal with the funeral arrangements?
(a) Old Cotter.
(b) The narrator's aunt.
(c) Father O'Rourke.
(d) Father Flynn.

5. What did Father Butler catch Leo Dillon reading?
(a) High Noon.
(b) Standoff at Little Bighorn.
(c) The Apache Chief.
(d) The Bloody Saloon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over dinner in "After the Race," Villona discusses the beauty of which type of music?

2. What is the odd word from Euclid that the narrator of "The Sisters" mentions?

3. Where do Eveline and Frank plan to live?

4. Who are driving the blue cars in "After the Race"?

5. Of what did the dead man in "The Sisters" die?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 218 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample