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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. Aladdin become sick with ___________.
(a) The flu.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Measles.

2. What does Ottaline keep in her room?
(a) A horse.
(b) A television.
(c) A scanner.
(d) A computer.

3. A Lonely Coast examines the lives of how many women who reside in a small Wyoming town?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

4. How old was the person the narrator found her husband cheating on her with in A Lonely Coast?
(a) 11.
(b) 23.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

5. Who is due to come by when Aladdin is sick?
(a) The Bible salesman.
(b) The livestock dealer.
(c) The feed dealer.
(d) The postal carrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Roany and Wade fight about?

2. How is Rancher Croom's beer described?

3. Shy said he had gone to a protest of ranchers killing ______________.

4. What does Sutton Muddyman buy for his wife's birthday in Pair of Spurs?

5. What does Ottaline hope to do in order to attract a man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the argument between Roany and Wade caused by?

2. Describe the Touch family of The Bunchgrass Edge of the World. Who is the patriarch?

3. What action is described in the beginning of 55 Miles to the Gas Pump?

4. What events happen at the ending of A Lonely Coast?

5. Describe the narration style of A Lonely Coast. How does it differ from the other short stories in the collection?

6. What did Car do once his wife refused to take him back in Pair a Spurs?

7. What is Car's first experience like being near the spurs in Pair a Spurs?

8. According to Ottaline's belief, what object talks to her The Bunchgrass Edge of the World? How does she find it?

9. What does the narrator observe which foreshadows the ending of A Lonely Coast?

10. What is suggested by the ending of 55 Miles to the Gas Pump?

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