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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who are Mary Alice's best friends that she is upset about missing while she's at Grandma Dowdel's in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
2. What is the name of the general store described downtown where Grandma Dowdel lives?
3. Who is the American Western film actor that Joey cites when he hears the explosion outside Grandma's house in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
4. Who is described in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground" as "A real old, humped-over lady with buck teeth" and crossed eyes that had been the telling the reporter tales at the cafe in town?
5. What is the "country saying" that Grandma Dowdel uses when she and the kids set out to go fishing in "A One-Woman Crime Wave"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What story does Grandma Dowdel give to the city reporter about Shotgun Cheatham? Why?
2. What information do Mary Alice and Joey learn about Grandma's past from Aunt Puss Chapman?
3. How does the author establish an atmosphere of the Chicago gangster scene in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
4. Why does Shotgun Cheatham's death raise interest in out-of-towners in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
5. How does Grandma Dowdel overcome her adversaries at the end of “A One Woman Crime Wave"?
6. Where do Joey and Mary Alice meet Aunt Puss Chapman? How is Aunt Puss described?
7. What is the "moral of the story" based on Grandma Dowdel's actions in “A One Woman Crime Wave"?
8. How are the Cowgills described in "The Mouse in the Milk"? What business do they run?
9. Where does Grandma Dowdel take Joey and Mary Alice to go fishing in “A One Woman Crime Wave"? How do they fish?
10. Why does Mrs. Weidenbach come to Grandma Dowdel's home in "The Day of Judgment"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the themes of deception and cunning in the stories from A Long Way from Chicago. In what stories are these themes most predominant? How? What characters embody or exhibit these themes?
Essay Topic 2
What inspires Grandma Dowdel to go in search of Uncle Grady Griswold in “Centennial Summer"? How does Uncle Grady appear when Grandma Dowdel and the children arrive? Where does he live? Who does he live with?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the narrator of the stories in A Long Way from Chicago. How old is the narrator as he relates the stories? How old is the narrator during his first visit to Grandma Dowdel's house? How does this character evolve in the course of the stories?
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