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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 are standard occurrences in Savannah?
(a) Car accidents caused by alcohol consumption
(b) Tailgate parties
(c) Garden club meetings
(d) Race riots

2. Who is Serena Dawes?
(a) A former cigarette model who married into a wealthy family
(b) The president of the Savannah Junior League
(c) The president of The Savannah School Board
(d) The wife of the caretaker at Bonaventure Cemetery

3. Who tells the story?
(a) The mayor
(b) The rabbi
(c) The governor
(d) The narrator

4. What are Spencer Lawton's characteristics?
(a) Tall and thin as a beanpole
(b) Grotesquely obese and florid
(c) A big man with massive shoulders
(d) Soft spoken and a little plump

5. What does Joe do for money?
(a) Plays piano and gives tours of his house
(b) Manages a video store
(c) Gets a job on a shrimp boat
(d) Tends bar

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the answer to #75 ordered to pay?

2. Where does the narrator meet Luther Driggers?

3. What is Luther's newest invention?

4. What is unusual about the salesman in a junk shop where the narrator shops?

5. What is Williams' mother's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jim's explanation of the murder?

2. Why is Joe Odom becoming increasingly unpopular in Savannah?

3. How does the narrator develop a fascination with Savannah?

4. Where do Joe and his girlfriend, Mandy, go after they are evicted for not paying rent?

5. Why does Joe Odom move out of the Pulaski House?

6. What rules does Joe give the narrator for surviving in Savannah?

7. Who is Jim Williams?

8. Who are Jim's attorneys?

9. What is the setting for the novel?

10. What is the relationship between Jim Williams and Lee and Emma Adler?

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