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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. How does Sue earn her living?
(a) By washing and ironing other people's laundry.
(b) Sewing clothes.
(c) Serving in the school's cafeteria.
(d) Cleaning houses.

2. How does Johnny-Boy feel when his mother keeps talking at him?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Impatient.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Happy.

3. What does Sue do as the Sheriff is leaving?
(a) Calls the FBI.
(b) Yells after him to taunt him.
(c) Yells after him and tells him what he wants to know.
(d) Shoots him with her shotgun.

4. Where is Johnny-Boy at the beginning of the story?
(a) Notifying others of a meeting.
(b) Tending to a foaling mare.
(c) Working at the gas station.
(d) Sleeping.

5. What does Sue need to do with the clothes in the zinc wash tub?
(a) Iron them.
(b) Fold them.
(c) Wash them.
(d) Mend them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sue do when Johnny-Boy dozes off?

2. What does Sue do when Johnny-Boy gets ready to leave the house?

3. What is she told after she speaks to the sheriff?

4. What is one of the most consistent situations we read about in Sue's life?

5. What does Sue do after Johnny-Boy leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the men do after Sue shoots her gun and how does she feel in the end?

2. What is Sue asked as she rises to her feet?

3. How do the other men with the sheriff respond to what she says to him?

4. Why can't Sue quit worrying about her son?

5. How does Sue see Booker when she comes to after the sheriff's beating?

6. What does Booker do when Sue recognizes him?

7. What does Sue do when she wakes with someone in her house?

8. What is the weather like in the beginning of this story and what is Sue thinking about as she looks out the window?

9. What kind of work does Sue start to do after looking out the window? What does she wish for as she works?

10. What does Sue do with the gun and where does she go? What does she see as she approaches?

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