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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jones admit to being and also to never being?

2. What is Billy's job at Dillingham Automotives, Inc.?

3. What is Butler's regular complaint?

4. To what does the woman compare the scar?

5. Why does Mrs. Farragot ask Winfield to speak good English?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do some people say about Dewey?

2. What does Butler forbid in his shop and why does he forbid them?

3. What happens when the narrator of this story asks the woman sitting in the waiting room how she got the scar on her face?

4. How does Gloria's husband feel about square dancing and why is it surprising he feels this way?

5. What does Milford's brief say about his client and what does this seem to contradict?

6. What does the woman say about men?

7. What does the narrator say that the best men do and do not?

8. When the man with the massive tiara of black hair looks into Butler's shop, what does Butler offer him and how does the man respond?

9. What does Winfield say he was doing until he saw Mrs. Farragot run out of her house?

10. What doesn't Mrs. Boswell abide and for what is she determined to prepare the boys?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Why I like Country Music" - In what ways is square dancing used as a symbol of differing world views? What are these views? Which view do you best relate to and why?

Essay Topic 2

"The Story of a Scar"- What do you believe are the three major themes of this story? Do you believe this is a love story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

"The Story of a Dead Man" - In what way are the two main characters in this story alike? In what ways are they different? Why do you think one would become an accomplished liar? What would make a person become an accomplished liar?

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