View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe having happened to him on the day he and his wife plan to consummate their marriage in Chapter 1?
(a) He was hit by a car.
(b) A beam fell on him.
(c) He was shot in the back.
(d) He was hit by a train.

2. What word from Chapter 35 means feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress?
(a) Decorous.
(b) Inane.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Dolorous.

3. Who wrote Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865?
(a) Ben Wade.
(b) Daniel Mark Epstein.
(c) Margaret Leech.
(d) Rose Milland.

4. How many children does Mrs. Abigail Blass say she had with her husband?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

5. Who is attributed as the author of Essay Upon the Loss of a Child?
(a) Rose Milland.
(b) James Morgan.
(c) Maxwell Flagg.
(d) Jo Brunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many goats does Lieutenant Cecil Stone claim to have in Chapter 27?

2. What is Cynthia's last name?

3. Who does Roger Bevins III describe Mrs. Traynor singing merrily in Chapter 32?

4. What color does Roger Bevins III describe wearing at Christmastide with his father in Chapter 27?

5. Who is cited as the author of A Thrilling Youth: A Civil War Adolescence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Flanders Quinn and how is he described?

2. How does Roger Bevins III describe his suicide attempt in Chapter 9?

3. Why does Willie refuse to pass on from the bardo for much of the novel?

4. What are some examples of cited excerpts included in Chapters 3 and 4? What information do they relate?

5. What does the tendril that wraps Willie symbolic of?

6. How is Mrs. Delaney's plight described in Chapter 31?

7. What does Abraham Lincoln do when he enters the mausoleum in Chapter 16?

8. How is the appearance of Roger Bevins III described in Chapter 9?

9. What does Lieutenant Cecil Stone describe of his life in Chapter 26?

10. What is the inciting incident that transitions the plot to rising action?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 685 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample