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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Middle Ground stories.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hawkshaw do for a living in the story "Hair"?
(a) He is a stylist.
(b) He is a barber.
(c) He is a dentist.
(d) He is a doctor.

2. Homer Barron is from what part of the United States?
(a) The South.
(b) The East.
(c) The West.
(d) The North.

3. How is the narrator of the story "Pennsylvania Station" related to the dead woman?
(a) He is her father.
(b) He is her brother.
(c) He is her son.
(d) He is her uncle.

4. How does the husband react when he hears of his wife's affair in the story "Honor"?
(a) He is confused.
(b) He is devastated.
(c) He gives his approval.
(d) He is outraged.

5. What does Louise's mother think about Jarrod?
(a) That he is an untrustworthy man.
(b) That he is socially beneath Louise.
(c) That he would make a good husband.
(d) She has never met Jarrod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the black man who is killed for assaulting Minnie Cooper in the story "Dry September"?

2. Which of the following characters is NOT involved with telling the story of Harrison Blair's chase of the fox?

3. What crop does the family in "The Tall Men" grow?

4. What animal does Doom kill using a salt he has brought back from the white man's land?

5. At the end of the story "Crevasse," what is the injured man in the corner doing?

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