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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Bill have in his wallet as he drives to Florida in “The Ocean”?
(a) $1,000
(b) $500
(c) $1,500
(d) $750

2. Where is the hometown of Billy Carter that Bill and Imogene visit in “The Ocean”?
(a) Hot Springs, Arkansas
(b) Jackson, Mississippi
(c) Cleveland, Mississippi
(d) Plains, Georgia

3. What kind of business does Nancy’s husband run in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) Bookselling
(b) Advertising
(c) Photography
(d) A hotel

4. Of her parents’ farmhouse, the narrator of “Residents and Transients” says, “I love its stateliness, the way it rises up from the fields like a patch of” what?
(a) Daisies
(b) Red apple trees
(c) Mutant jimsonweeds
(d) Purple irises

5. When Georgeann first knew Shelby in high school, Shelby was on probation for stealing four cases of cola and a ham from where in “The Retreat”?
(a) Kroger's Grocery Store
(b) Albertson's Grocery Store
(c) K-Mart
(d) Piggly Wiggly

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

7. The man that got Linda pregnant had promised to get her what, in “Third Monday”?
(a) A trip to Bermuda
(b) A bookstore
(c) A round-trip cruise to Alaska
(d) A laundromat franchise

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

9. Nancy and Jack have been married almost how long in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) 15 years
(b) 12 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 20 years

10. Jack says in “Lying Doggo,” “The only people I ever cared about who died were” what?
(a) His grandparents
(b) His parents
(c) Old
(d) Rock heroes

11. What term does Jack use “for making the house energy-efficient” in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) Restoring
(b) Retrofitting
(c) Solarizing
(d) Repercolating

12. How frequently does Ruby see the man she’s dating in “Third Monday”?
(a) Once every two weeks
(b) Once a year
(c) Once a week
(d) Once a month

13. What is the name of Nancy’s history professor that attends her wedding in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) Dr. Ross
(b) Dr. James
(c) Dr. Anderson
(d) Dr. Doyle

14. What are the names of Georgeann and Shelby’s two children in “The Retreat”?
(a) Peter and Sarah
(b) Mark and Elizabeth
(c) Mike and Jimmy
(d) Tamara and Jason

15. In the beginning of “The Retreat,” Georgeann is basting facings on what garment?
(a) A band uniform
(b) A children's choir robe
(c) A wedding dress
(d) A cheerleader's uniform

Short Answer Questions

1. What surgery has Ruby recently had in “Third Monday”?

2. How old is Sabrina in “A New-Wave Format”?

3. What is the name of Edwin’s first wife in “A New-Wave Format”?

4. When Joe arrives for dinner in “Graveyard Day,” Waldeen tells him Holly is mad because she won’t make what?

5. What play is Sabrina in rehearsals for at the Western Kentucky Little Theatre in “A New-Wave Format”?

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