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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. How does Rogers characterize Charles's talent?

2. Where does the narrator believe is the safest possible place?

3. In what month did Ginny and Paul get married?

4. How do the other diners look at the people involved in the theft?

5. With what color does Harold say is the only color that he is concerned?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say to those who come to him telling him that anything not in the Bible is false?

2. What are the Foster's doing because it was recommended and because they are tired of tourism?

3. What does the narrator say that he is enough of a realist to accept?

4. When Mrs. Richards bets a woman is fattening Louis up for the fry, about what does Louis think?

5. Where does this story take place?

6. What does Clair talk about during her part of the dinner?

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

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

9. How does Leon describe his landlady?

10. Who is Nelson Reed and what does he become?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Problems of Art" -The story ended with the reader learning that Mrs. Farragot had indeed been drinking. Did you find this surprising? Why or why not? Do you think she was drunk the night of the incident? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

"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 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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