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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. What is the mother in “The River” doing in the beginning of the story?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Working.

2. How old is the boy in “The River”?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) An infant.
(d) 8.

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

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

5. How old is Ruller?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Six.
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are traveling with the grandmother and her son in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

2. How many customers are in the diner in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?

3. What does the grandmother have hiding under the newspaper in the backseat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

4. What animal comes to Old Gabriel’s cabin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Old Dudley think about New York?

2. Why does Rayber change barbers?

3. Why does Hazel Wickers keep thinking about his mother?

4. Who is Rabie?

5. What happens at the end of “A Circle in the Fire”?

6. What dismays Ruby about Rufus choosing collard greens as his something “special” that she will make for him?

7. How does O’Connor use foreshadowing in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

8. Why does Rayber’s old barber call him a “mother hubbard”?

9. What does Enoch Emery’s daily routine consist of?

10. Why is Ruller so proud to bring the turkey home to his family?

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