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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 the man in the restaurant using to spray the people with in "The Butterfly and the Tank"?
(a) A spray bottle.
(b) A cup.
(c) A flit gun.
(d) His mouth.

2. What does Nick do for the Italian soldiers?
(a) Buries the dead.
(b) Talks to the wounded.
(c) Delivers messages.
(d) Build morale.

3. What is the narrator in "The Black Ass at the Cross Roads" doing?
(a) Killing Germans.
(b) Robbing travelers.
(c) Sniping Frenchmen.
(d) Patrolling the area.

4. How high is the little boy's temperature in "A Day's Wait"?
(a) 110.
(b) 102.
(c) 112.
(d) 100.

5. Where does the woman's husband in "One Reader Writes" serve for 3 years?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Milan.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Fontans from?

2. What does the soldier tell the doctor is cruel of him to do in "A Natural History of the Dead"?

3. Where is Enrique hiding at the beginning of "Nobody Ever Dies"?

4. How is the narrator in "A Day's Wait" related to the boy?

5. Where are Robert and Helena traveling in "The Strange Country"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the man in "Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog" ask his wife to leave him?

2. What is the woman writing to the medical column about in "One Reader Writes"?

3. What causes an attack on the house Edwin is living in in "Landscape with Figures"?

4. What makes Stevie's father disappointed in him?

5. What does the matador do when he receives notices about his mother's grave fee?

6. What do the Fontans make in secret, and why is it so secret?

7. What is Nick good at doing with women?

8. How does Mr. Wheeler keep contact with his son, and how do Stevie's doctor's feel about his progress in the mental institution?

9. How is Blindy blinded?

10. How does Cayetano spend his days in the hospital?

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