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

2. What city is Ed Phelps exploring in the story When We All Get to Heaven?
(a) New York City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Baltimore.

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

4. What career does the narrator of The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks leave in order to become a chef?
(a) Law.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Finance.
(d) Medicine.

5. Where is Ed staying in the city he is visiting?
(a) Milford Plaza.
(b) Farmington Road.
(c) Rainford Hill.
(d) The Ritz Carlton.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how much money was Howard Hughes making in 1966?

2. Why does Lazarus go to the grocery store to begin with the day he sees J.C. there?

3. Where is Ed actually from?

4. What sport did Tony and Cicero used to participate in together in high school?

5. Why did Inez Cross Chasten decide not to ever tell her husband about Hughes's offer to work for him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Police Chief Cavanaugh react when Lazarus turns himself in after beating up J.C.?

2. What does a man in the street in New York City hand Ed that puts Ed off in the story When We All Get to Heaven?

3. How does Cicero feel about his uncle, Dax Cross?

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

5. Why does Howard Hughes ask Inez Cross Chasten to work for him in the story titled The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks?

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

7. Until he beats J.C. Stokes, how does Lazarus mostly choose to deal with his wife's infidelity?

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

9. How does Lazarus start to feel after beginning to beat J.C. Stokes?

10. How does Ed Phelps's musical interaction with Idol affect him later that same day?

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