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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who’s cabin does Mr. Shiflit walk to?
(a) Emma Macabee’s.
(b) His mother’s.
(c) Lucynell Carter’s.
(d) His sister’s.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Enoch Emery borrow from his landlord?
(a) Her rain slicker.
(b) Her umbrella.
(c) Her rain hat.
(d) Her rain galoshes.

7. Whose perspective is “The Crop” told in?
(a) Mrs. Willteron’s.
(b) Garner’s.
(c) Lucia’s.
(d) Lot Motum’s.

8. Who dose Hazel accompany to the dining car?
(a) The porter.
(b) His mother.
(c) A woman whom he has been flirting with.
(d) Mrs. Hosen.

9. What season is it in “The Heart of the Park”?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

10. Old Gabriel is _________?
(a) Crippled.
(b) Blind.
(c) Mute.
(d) Deaf.

11. How old is Sally Poker Sash?
(a) 31.
(b) 62.
(c) 87.
(d) 54.

12. How old is General Sash?
(a) 54.
(b) 87.
(c) 70.
(d) 104.

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

14. Who reappears in “The Heart of the Park”?
(a) Hazel Motes.
(b) Old Gabriel.
(c) Enoch Emery.
(d) Mrs. Willerton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does the babysitter pick up the boy in “The River”?

2. What is chained in a Chinaberry tree outside the diner where they stop to eat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

3. What does Mr. Shiflit get running?

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

5. How old is the boy in “The River”?

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