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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Murray and his wife drive to see a doctor?
(a) Murray has been having dizzy spells.
(b) They are having annual check-ups.
(c) His wife finds a lump which may be cancerous.
(d) His wife thinks that she may be pregnant.

2. Who is the housekeeper at Jack's aunt's house?
(a) Jillie.
(b) Jamie.
(c) Judy.
(d) Joanne.

3. What help did Murray offer to Victor?
(a) He would buy an airline ticket to America.
(b) He would give him a job.
(c) He would loan him enough money to get an apartment.
(d) He could sleep in an abandoned apartment in the store.

4. Why does Hazel want to travel to the town in #57?
(a) Because she needs a vacation.
(b) Because her husband was there during the war.
(c) Because she wants to see her family.
(d) Because she wants to visit a friend who is sick.

5. What does Dudley do when Hazel tells him about Miss Dobie's poem?
(a) He covers his ears.
(b) He laughs at her.
(c) He recites it word-for-word.
(d) He leaves the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator's mother blame for all of Flora's problems?

2. Who is Brenda's husband?

3. What is the job of the man in #20?

4. What does Almeda wonder when she hears the sounds in the night?

5. Why did the narrator's mother leave the farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the premise of "Meneseteung"?

2. How did the generation gap separate the narrator and her mother and what conclusion does she come to regarding how well she knew her own mother?

3. What is the content of a poem told by Miss Dobie that seems to be directed at Judy?

4. What is life like for women in Almeda's town?

5. How did Flora try to mend the relationship with the narrator's mother, and what does the narrator think about how well she knew her own mother?

6. Why had Robert married Ellie instead of Flora, and how did Ellie's health deteriorate?

7. What is the premise of "Five Points"?

8. Why has Hazel decided to travel to a town in Scotland and who does she meet right away when she arrives?

9. How does the story of Janette serve as a metaphor for the struggles Judy and Antoinette experience regarding Dudley?

10. Why would Murray have secretly wanted Barbara to have had an affair?

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