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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what type of tree does the poem "Nullo" refer?
(a) Oak.
(b) Willow.
(c) Fir.
(d) Pine.

2. What information does a towns person divulge to the narrator upon first sight of Fern?
(a) Only her name.
(b) That she is promiscuous.
(c) That she is loved by many.
(d) Her line of work.

3. Who does the narrator blame for the end of Carma's story?
(a) Karintha.
(b) Bane.
(c) Carma.
(d) Bollo.

4. What does the blade of the mower cut in "Reapers"?
(a) Grass.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Weeds.
(d) Wheat.

5. What are reapers' relationships to scythes?
(a) They attach to them.
(b) They sharpen them.
(c) They cut with them.
(d) They use them as tools.

6. What did Karintha do as a child?
(a) Loved to read.
(b) Played baseball.
(c) Danced with older boys.
(d) Gossiped about her peers.

7. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?
(a) They want to run her out of town.
(b) They want to marry her.
(c) They want to protect her.
(d) They want to possess her.

8. To whose singing does the author repeatedly compare Fern's face?
(a) A churchgoer.
(b) An angel child.
(c) A field worker.
(d) A Jewish cantor.

9. How did the townspeople know that Becky was alive?
(a) They saw her through the windows.
(b) She came to the market.
(c) There was smoke coming out of the chimney.
(d) Her sons told the townspeople.

10. How have the woman's wrinkles described in "Face" been made?
(a) Stress.
(b) Fright.
(c) Pain.
(d) Thought.

11. In "Conversion", how is the Christian god physically described?
(a) White.
(b) Tall.
(c) Grotesque.
(d) Fat.

12. What color is the hair of the old woman described in "Face"?
(a) Silver gray.
(b) Earth brown.
(c) Sunny blond.
(d) Jet black.

13. What religion do those being converted now belong to in "Conversion"?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Hinduism.

14. Who is observing the forest in "Nullo"?
(a) Fern.
(b) Rhobert.
(c) The townspeople.
(d) Only the speaker.

15. How is the weather in Georgia in November?
(a) Snowing.
(b) Warm.
(c) Cold.
(d) Raining.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the whistle mark the end of the day's shift?

2. At what age does Karintha become sexually active?

3. Why did Carma take a lover?

4. What animal has been walking in the forest as evidenced by imprints in "Nullo"?

5. Why were the old folks startled by the November cotton flower?

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