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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. Who decides to go join his friends one day while they play across the street from the Grimes' apartment?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) John.
(d) Roy.

2. When does the annual outing occur?
(a) The 4th of July.
(b) Easter.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Memorial Day.

3. What race does Peter insist receives the worst discrimination?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Asians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Whites.

4. What do the boys in The Outing wait for upon arriving to their destination?
(a) Sylvia to be alone.
(b) To jump off the rope swing.
(c) To go horseback riding.
(d) To go canoeing.

5. In The Outing, what does Sylvia ask David?
(a) If he will kiss her.
(b) Why she has never seen him before.
(c) If he will go on a walk with her.
(d) Why he is not saved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which son is not Gabriel's biological son?

2. Who comes to Peter's date's rescue in Previous Conditions?

3. In The Outing, who has appeared to become attached to Sylvia's side?

4. What does Peter make an excuse for in Previous Conditions?

5. What is the boy's mother concerned about when her son comes home injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why will Jamie never have children, according to Eric's father?

2. Describe what the Grimes boys do on Saturdays.

3. What is Eric doing at the beginning of The Man Child?

4. What does Elizabeth instruct John to do at the end of The Rockpile?

5. What do Peter's friends suggest he fight in Previous Condition?

6. Describe what Previous Condition is about.

7. Describe Ida's relationship with her husband.

8. In Previous Condition, what does Peter do at the end of the story?

9. Describe Peter in Previous Condition.

10. In The Outing, why does Gabriel get angry and feel powerless?

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