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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. What is Luz's occupation?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Actor.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Teacher.

2. How long has the woman in the Indian camp been in labor when the doctor is brought in?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 20 hours.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 36 hours.

3. Where does Jim make love to Liz?
(a) In a warehouse.
(b) At his house.
(c) In an alley.
(d) In the woods.

4. What important question does a major have for an orderly?
(a) If he remembers the plan of battle.
(b) If he has found the mole.
(c) If he knows the rules of the convention.
(d) If he is in love with a girl.

5. How does the General's wife die in "In Another Country"?
(a) Hypothermia.
(b) War wounds.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the group of military men living in "A Simple Inquiry"?

2. Why is the narrator put in prison?

3. Where is the revolutionist tortured?

4. What happens to the animals who cannot board the ship in Smyrna?

5. What are the women in Smyrna clinging to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is given precedence over the man who dies in "Banal Story"?

2. What does the narrator tell the old man at the bridge to do, and why does he not listen?

3. How do Bill and Nick feel about Nick's ended relationship with Marjorie?

4. What does the narrator in "After the Storm" regret when he gets out of prison?

5. What does Nick's father tell him on the 4th of July, and how does Nick respond?

6. Who does the American soldier talk with during the night, and what is said?

7. Why does Jack get a hotel room for the night of his last boxing match?

8. What happens on the first day of Francis Macomber's hunting trip?

9. Why is Guy's car stopped as he travels through Italy, and what does he have to do to continue?

10. What does the girl tell the boy in "The Sea Change", and how does he respond?

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