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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. About what does the woman who sits next to the Fosters complain?

2. What does Jones denies kept Charles and Jones from being friends?

3. What does the speaker say that everything has?

4. What does Daniel warn Paul about his daughter?

5. Why does Leon rush back to the breakfast room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Paul do after months of silence at the mental hospital?

2. Why does the editor feel obliged to impose order on the piece of writing in front of him?

3. What does Charles do that is unlike Detroit-born mechanics and what does he think will happen as a result of this?

4. What does the narrator say great literature has given way to?

5. What makes Eunice wonder about the hotel's breakfast calls?

6. What does Jed Jones say happened after he heard the shots?

7. What does the group of storytellers who Ginny joined consider themselves and what happens to change this?

8. Where does this story take place?

9. What is Harold Green caught doing that angers people in the community?

10. What is the first parable about the narrator shares?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"A Loaf of Bread" - How are the concepts of economics and psychology discussed in this story? Which is more prevalently discussed? Why do you feel this way?

Essay Topic 2

"Just Enough for the City" - Why do the evangelists become frustrated with the narrator? How does this story portray the black narrator? Why do you think this way?

Essay Topic 3

"Widows and Orphans"- How does Louis view Clair? How does Clair view Louis? In what ways do these two views coincide? In what ways do they differ?

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