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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Georgeann work in order to help support Shelby as he attends seminary school in “The Retreat”?
(a) Albertson's Grocery Store
(b) Kroger's Grocery Store
(c) J. C. Penney's
(d) Macy's Department Store

2. When Georgeann began dating Shelby in high school, she was impressed that he had spent a month studying whose life in “The Retreat”?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt's
(b) Theodore Roosevelt's
(c) Abraham Lincoln's
(d) Winston Churchill's

3. What did the man Ruby’s dating try to sell her when they first met in “Third Monday”?
(a) A ring
(b) A coffee table
(c) A stuffed animal
(d) A hunting dog

4. Where did Ruby meet the man she’s dating in “Third Monday”?
(a) The fairgrounds
(b) K-Mart
(c) J. C. Penney's
(d) Kroger's

5. What song keeps going through Nancy’s head while she’s in the hospital after giving birth to Robert in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) In My Adobe Hacienda
(b) The Black and Muddy River
(c) Let It Be
(d) Sweet Home Alabama

6. Where did Nancy get married in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) Maine
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Arkansas
(d) Kentucky

7. How many lines does Sabrina have in the play she’s in rehearsals for in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 3
(d) 2

8. What is Edwin’s last name in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) Cleveland
(b) Jackson
(c) Creech
(d) Culpepper

9. Where did the narrator know Larry from before she began having an affair with him in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) He is her mailman
(b) He is her family doctor
(c) He is her dentist
(d) He owns a bookstore where she shops

10. The neighbor that Nancy talks to about Grover in the supermarket says the doctor told him to avoid what vegetable for his rheumatoid arthritis in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) Zucchini
(b) Potatoes
(c) Onions
(d) Eggplant

11. Nancy and her husband live in a small town an hour’s drive from what city in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) Boston
(b) New York
(c) Philadelphia
(d) Cleveland

12. How long ago does the narrator say she came back to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) 5 years ago
(b) 3 years ago
(c) 4 years ago
(d) 2 years ago

13. What word from “Graveyard Day” refers to studies or membership within a philosophical secret society said to have been founded in late medieval Germany by Christian Rosenkreuz?
(a) Aristotelian
(b) Rosicrucian
(c) Epicurean
(d) Bourgeois

14. What play is Sabrina in rehearsals for at the Western Kentucky Little Theatre in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) Oklahoma!
(b) The Music Man
(c) Cats
(d) James and the Giant Peach

15. What kind of flowers does Joe regularly take to put on his grandparents’ grave in “Graveyard Day”?
(a) Geraniums
(b) Roses
(c) Azaleas
(d) Daisies

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business does Nancy’s husband run in “Nancy Culpepper”?

2. What is written on the bakery cake Linda admires in the beginning of “Third Monday”?

3. What freeway does Imogene ask directions to in Nashville in “The Ocean”?

4. What term does Jack use “for making the house energy-efficient” in “Lying Doggo”?

5. What kind of truck does Larry drive in “Residents and Transients”?

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