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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Stroke of Good Fortune.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the red-haired girl and the blind man doing in “The Peeler”?
(a) Holding hands an observing passersby.
(b) Handing out religious pamphlets.
(c) Selling bread loaves.
(d) Heckling people.

2. Who is Madam Zoleeda?
(a) The palmist on highway 87.
(b) The woman who owns the local saloon.
(c) Ruby's best friend.
(d) Rufus’s prostitute.

3. Ruby’s physical shape is compared to a ________?
(a) Funeral urn.
(b) Hog.
(c) Reed.
(d) Raisin.

4. How old is Hazel Wickers?
(a) Ten.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty.

5. Where is Hazel Wickers expecting to sleep on the train?
(a) A lower berth.
(b) An upper berth.
(c) In a coach seat.
(d) In a first-class seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madam Zoleeda tell Ruby?

2. What does Mrs. Willerton consider herself?

3. In “The Peeler”, what is the yellow-haired boy’s name?

4. How is Rufus connected to Ruby?

5. What is the profession of Mrs. Willerton’s main character Lot Motum?

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