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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 two children are left at the school house with the teacher during the blizzard?
(a) Johan and Alma Lindquist.
(b) John and Annie Lendorff.
(c) Jacob and Annie Smithson.
(d) Jason and Alice Meyer.

2. What does the husband in Cathedral find disconcerting about Robert?
(a) Robert is blind.
(b) Robert is over seven feet tall.
(c) Robert is a paraplegic.
(d) Robert is only twenty years old.

3. Where does Hattie Benedict move after the blizzard?
(a) Sarasota, Florida.
(b) Oakland, California.
(c) Seattle, Washington
(d) Raleigh, North Carolina.

4. What unusual injury befalls Terrence Weber in Emergency?
(a) His wife stabs him in the leg.
(b) His wife stabs him in the eye.
(c) His wife stabs him in the stomach.
(d) His wife stabs him in the heart.

5. What does Ad Magic give to the young boy with the performing monkey?
(a) His hat.
(b) HIs sweater.
(c) All of his change.
(d) Twenty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Quadberry in the VIetnam war?

2. In All the Way in Flagstaff, what does William want to do when he grows up?

3. Who is Louise's close friend in college?

4. What does the older son in Minor Heroism do for a living?

5. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Lillian die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do the narrator of Emergency and his friend Georgie work and for how long? What do they do there?

2. What memory does Bryan relate in the third part of the story Minor Heroism?

3. Who is speaking in Girl, and to who is she directing her instructions?

4. In A Romantic Weekend, how long do Beth and her companion stay in Washington,D.C. and how do they return home? Why did they actually make the trip?

5. What picture do the narrator of Catherdraland Robert draw and why?

6. How does the woman in The Darling meet Lenny?

7. Why does Delores kill her husband Michael in Scott Bradfield's story "The Darling"?

8. In the story Chopin in Winter, what do Michael and Dzia-Dzia talk about at night and why?

9. What story does Edna tell the narrator of Rock Springs about her pet, a monkey?

10. In the story Wickedness, what happens in Nebraska on the twelfth of January, 1888? How does this affect the townspeople?

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