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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 does Stump find a can of while walking to school, thinking that it has been chucked overboard by Railroad Bill?
(a) A can of sauerkraut.
(b) A can of potato soup.
(c) A can of peaches.
(d) A can of tuna fish.

2. What is Mr. Limeway's nickname?
(a) Honey Bear.
(b) Limey.
(c) Peanut.
(d) Skids.

3. What does Idgie win in a poker game, which she takes back to Troutsville with the hope of curing Naughty Bird's sickness?
(a) Medicine.
(b) An elephant.
(c) Feather blankets.
(d) Honey and biscuits.

4. Who is the only person that knows where Idgie is hiding when she leaves town?
(a) Sipsey.
(b) Evelyn.
(c) Big George.
(d) Ninny.

5. How does Ruth feel about the abuse she suffered while married to Frank?
(a) She feels apathetic to it.
(b) She feels like it is unneccessary.
(c) She feels like she deserves it.
(d) She feels like it is not abusive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beverage does Idgie give Smokey to drink when she sees his hands shaking?

2. Which of the following animals stars in the story Idgie tells Smokey, which he finds so funny he laughs out loud?

3. Which of the following bills are particularly high for residents in Whistle Stop during the early 1930's?

4. Which of the following pests does Idgie battle on her picnic lunch with Ruth?

5. How old is Evelyn's daughter when Evelyn realizes she is living a promiscuous life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What practical joke does Idgie play on townsfolk that lead people to believe she may have killed a man?

2. How does Idgie know that Frank is beating her?

3. What is life like for Evelyn at the Forever Slim Lodge?

4. How does the woman in Slagtown lose fifty dollars?

5. What are the final thoughts in Smokey Lonesome's head when he is sick in 1965?

6. Why does Ruth move out of Idgie's house in 1946?

7. Why is Artis sentenced to ten years in prison?

8. How does Idgie help cure Naughty Bird's pneumonia?

9. What outrageous story does Idgie tell Ninny about how her uncle died?

10. What rumors start to circle through Whistle Stop about the way that Frank Bennett treats women after he marries Ruth?

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