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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rufus return home from?
(a) Boarding school.
(b) Work overseas.
(c) A reformatory.
(d) The armed forces.

2. What does Hazel Motes purchase from the baker?
(a) Dough.
(b) A potato peeler.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Bread.

3. What war did General Sash serve in?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The War Between the States.
(c) The Great War.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

4. What does Mrs. Cope offer the teenage boys?
(a) Beer.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Crackers.
(d) Sweet tea.

5. Emery discovers what about the gorilla?
(a) That the gorilla is really a man.
(b) That the gorilla has feelings.
(c) That there is really no gorilla.
(d) That he eats people.

6. What is chained in a Chinaberry tree outside the diner where they stop to eat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) A goat.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A cat.
(d) A monkey.

7. After the family rolls their car in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, what do the men in the passing car have?
(a) A tow truck.
(b) Guns.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

8. Who is John Wesley?
(a) Sally’s brother who no longer speaks to General Sash.
(b) A boy that Sash thinks of as his own son.
(c) A boy that Sally has arranged to wheel General Sash to the stage.
(d) Sally’s son who is graduating from college.

9. What does Hazel Weaver want from Enoch Emery?
(a) To stop spying on the sunbathing women.
(b) Friendship.
(c) An ice cream soda.
(d) The address of the red-haired girl and the blind man.

10. What time does the babysitter pick up the boy in “The River”?
(a) Six o’clock in the morning.
(b) Five o’clock in the morning.
(c) Six o’clock in the evening.
(d) At noon.

11. What does the upper sleeping berth remind Hazel Wickers of?
(a) His bed.
(b) His mother’s chiffarobe.
(c) A coffin.
(d) His back porch.

12. Whom does Mrs. Willerton become in her own story?
(a) Lot’s sister.
(b) Lot’s wife.
(c) Lot’s brother.
(d) She does not become part of her story.

13. What does Enoch Emery discover inside the museum?
(a) A woman he likes to watch.
(b) A glass case with a handwritten card inside of it and mummified man.
(c) Mysterious calligraphic writing.
(d) Urns.

14. Who helps Old Dudley up the stairs?
(a) The taxi driver.
(b) The black man who is renting the apartment next to Old Dudley’s.
(c) The apartment concierge.
(d) His daughter when she returns home from work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Cope?

2. What is the mother in “The River” doing in the beginning of the story?

3. What does Madam Zoleeda tell Ruby?

4. What is Old Gabriel afraid of?

5. In “The River”, why do the characters head down to the river?

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