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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Story of a Scar, Murderers, The Misfits, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and A Good Man is Hard to Find..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the sailors use to coax the monkey down from the mast when it is upset?
(a) Money.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Music.
(d) Bread.

2. How does the monkey die in the story "Letters from the Samantha"?
(a) It leaps overboard and drowns.
(b) It dies from old age aboard the ship.
(c) It is poisoned by the crew.
(d) The captain strangles it.

3. What instrument does Jack learn to play as a way of coping with his brother's death?
(a) The French horn.
(b) The piano.
(c) The clarinet.
(d) The violin.

4. Which of the following is NOT an obsession that plagues the narrator's family in the story "The Lover of Horses"?
(a) Card playing.
(b) Car racing.
(c) Music.
(d) Languages.

5. Which of the following adjectives best describes Arnold Friend's relationship with Connie?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Boring.
(d) Sweet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives is NOT used to describe Connie in the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

2. Who died, prompting the narrator to contact Sonny?

3. Who is the co-editor of this collection along with Tom Jenks?

4. In the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," where is the family planning to travel to for vacation?

5. Who stands up for Willi Varig when he is too drunk to address the audience at the convention he had been hired to speak at?

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