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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. How did Stokes get burned, in Ain't No Sunshine?
(a) In an accident at work.
(b) In a car accident.
(c) In a house fire.
(d) In an accident at a gas station.

2. Why does Lazarus go to the grocery store to begin with the day he sees J.C. there?
(a) He ran out of Tums.
(b) He needed cheese.
(c) He needed clean drinking water.
(d) He needed ice cream.

3. What does Ed do after spending some time with the music star?
(a) Goes home to Alabama.
(b) Goes to meet his daughter for dinner.
(c) Stays for the star's performance.
(d) Goes to meet his brother to go to a Broadway show.

4. When did Inez Cross Pickett die?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1963.

5. What does the narrator ask his mother how to cook in the story The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks?
(a) Pigs feet.
(b) Pork chops.
(c) Collard greens.
(d) Chicken livers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the music star say Ed is really from?

2. What does the music star ask Ed to do for him and the other people in the room?

3. Why did Howard Hughes come to Tim's Creek, according to the narrator's mother?

4. Where was Inez Cross Pickett born?

5. What does the music star call Ed, to Ed's surprise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Francesca assume Idol's antics with Ed are all about in the story When We All Get to Heaven?

2. In the story I Thought I Heard the Shuffle of Angels' Feet, what brings Cicero and Tony together again after many years?

3. How does Ed get caught up in Billy Idol's entourage?

4. Why does Inez Cross Chasten choose not to tell her husband, ever, about Howard Hughes's proposition to her?

5. How do the bystanders in the grocery store react when Lazarus beats up J.C. Stokes?

6. Why is Lazarus Barden II having problems with his Aunt Tensy in the story Ain't No Sunshine?

7. Why does Howard Hughes buy Bradham's motel in Tim's Creek?

8. Why does Ed Phelps go to the Carnegie Deli in the story When We All Get to Heaven?

9. What does Lazarus compare his Aunt Tensy's interactions with her family to?

10. Why does Lazarus Barden II beat J.C. Stokes in the story Ain't No Sunshine?

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