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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. Joe has an antique walking stick that belonged to whom in “Graveyard Day”?
(a) Jefferson Davis
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) Robert E. Lee
(d) Ulysses S. Grant

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

5. 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

6. 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) Red apple trees
(b) Daisies
(c) Mutant jimsonweeds
(d) Purple irises

7. How old is Nancy’s grandmother that’s being put in a nursing home in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) 96
(b) 77
(c) 85
(d) 93

8. When Jack and Grover left Nancy for three months in California while she was pregnant, they went to an Indian reservation where in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) New Mexico
(b) Oklahoma
(c) California
(d) Arizona

9. The narrator states in “The Retreat” that when Georgeann married Shelby, her mother warned her about the disadvantages of marrying what?
(a) A gambler
(b) A preacher
(c) A lawyer
(d) A car salesman

10. Where has the narrator’s husband gone away to work in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) Louisville, Kentucky
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas
(c) Jackson, Mississippi
(d) Birmingham, Alabama

11. What freeway does Imogene ask directions to in Nashville in “The Ocean”?
(a) Interstate 77
(b) Interstate 80
(c) Interstate 30
(d) Interstate 65

12. How old is Edwin in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) 46
(b) 43
(c) 36
(d) 30

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

14. What restaurant does Joe say has “Liver Lover’s Night” on Tuesdays in “Graveyard Day”?
(a) Bob's Cove
(b) Ron's Bodega
(c) The Captain's Wharf
(d) The Pig Pit

15. What is Nancy’s married name in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) Nancy Cleveland
(b) Nancy Turnbow
(c) Nancy Ballard
(d) Nancy Waterford

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sabrina think Edwin looks like in “A New-Wave Format”?

2. In the beginning of “The Retreat,” Georgeann is basting facings on what garment?

3. 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?

4. Who did Imogene give away her belongings to before she and Bill set out in “The Ocean”?

5. What is the name of the man that Ruby is seeing in “Third Monday”?

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