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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Gunther and the narrator do in the back yard when the men have left?
(a) They go diving in the swimming pool.
(b) They drink until they pass out.
(c) They take a nap in the sun.
(d) They make their plan for their movie.

2. In The Things They Carried, how does Ted Lavendar die?
(a) He is shot in the back.
(b) He is hit by a grenade.
(c) He has a heart attack from fear.
(d) He is shot in the head.

3. Where do the narrator of Dog Heaven and her family live?
(a) Fort Bragg.
(b) Fort Niagra.
(c) Fort Denison.
(d) Fort Hood.

4. How does Charles Bad Holy MacLeod die?
(a) Of cancer.
(b) Of tuberculosis.
(c) Of a brain tumor.
(d) Of pneumonia.

5. Who are Evie and Lydia?
(a) Margaret's daughters.
(b) Margaret's sisters.
(c) Margaret's best friends.
(d) Margaret's granddaughters.

6. What is Acid Rain?
(a) A rock band who rents one of Gunther's houses.
(b) A environmental awareness club.
(c) A group of college students who rent Gunther's apartment.
(d) An actress who rents one of Gunther's houses.

7. Where does the narrator of the story Home go on Saturdays?
(a) The movies.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) The public library in the next town.
(d) The Veterans of Foreign Wars rummage sales.

8. Where do the narrator of Rules of the Game and her family live?
(a) In New York's Chinatown.
(b) In Chicago's Chinatown.
(c) In China.
(d) In San Francisco's Chinatown.

9. In Rules of the Game, what magazine features an article about the narrator?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) Seventeen Magazine.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Life Magazine.

10. Why is Grace angry with Elliot throughout the story?
(a) Elliot is drinking again.
(b) Elliot is having an affair.
(c) Elliot is stealing drugs.
(d) Elliot has invited his uncle to live with them.

11. What does the priest read while he is sitting at his mother's death bed?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Wordsworth.

12. What do Margaret's family members learn about Dr. Sakuma?
(a) He was the teacher who inspired her to learn.
(b) He was her grandfather, a white man.
(c) He was the father of her children.
(d) He was the man who named her Many Wounds.

13. In Murderers, what music could the boys hear from their vantage point?
(a) Rock music.
(b) A rumba.
(c) Jazz.
(d) A symphony.

14. Where does Strayhorn find his friend John?
(a) At the cafeteria.
(b) At the Bucket of Chicken.
(c) At the Bucket of Blood.
(d) At work in the shoe store.

15. In the story Helping, what do both Elliot and Grace do for a living?
(a) They are both psychiatrists.
(b) One is a social worker, the other is a lawyer.
(c) One is an artist, the other a scientists.
(d) They are both lawyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Connie and Arnold find they are both listening to on the radio at the same time?

2. In the story Lawns, how does the narrator identify herself in the first sentence of the story?

3. Where do Sparky Smith and the narrator attend school?

4. Who does the narrator meet observing a chess game in the park one afternoon in Rules of the Game?

5. Where does the narrator of Lawns go to college?

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