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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 is the role of the narrator in MENESETEUNG?
(a) Stage manager.
(b) Greek chorus.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Curious observer.

2. Where does Almeda stay most of the time?
(a) At church.
(b) At school.
(c) At home.
(d) At her best friend's house.

3. Almeda thinks that married women have to _____________________.
(a) Deal with in-laws.
(b) Give up careers.
(c) Mold their husbands.
(d) Clean too much.

4. What is the source of Almeda's social withdrawal?
(a) Her speech impediment.
(b) Her limp.
(c) Her facial scars.
(d) The death of her family members.

5. How many years have passed since the publication of Almeda's book?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does not enter into Almeda's idea of what marriage would be like?

2. What does Jarvis do with Almeda on Sundays?

3. Who built the home in which Almeda lives?

4. Where does Almeda think that Jarvis might take her?

5. All the people in town are under what age?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the undesirable area in town?

2. How does Almeda behave in her life?

3. To what does the author compare the flow of people and time?

4. Whose death also occurs close to Almeda's?

5. What is Almeda shocked by the woman's body and whose help does she enlist?

6. What does Almeda do as she sits in her dark house?

7. Who is Queen Aggie and what is her role in the town?

8. How is Almeda conflicted by the possibility of Jarvis' asking her to go for a ride in the country?

9. When does Almeda realize she does not care for Jarvis?

10. The narrator provides information about Almeda's life in what year in Section 2?

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