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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mutant jimsonweeds
(c) Purple irises
(d) Red apple trees

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

3. What band does the narrator say Georgeann put on to try to teach Shelby to dance prior to the prom in “The Retreat”?
(a) The Beatles
(b) The Doors
(c) The Who
(d) The Kinks

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

5. 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) Eggplant
(b) Onions
(c) Zucchini
(d) Potatoes

6. Why does the narrator say she returned to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) Her father passed away and left her his house
(b) Her uncle married a millionaire
(c) To marry her college professor
(d) Her parents were in poor health

7. What is the last name of Bill and Imogene in “The Ocean”?
(a) Hastings
(b) Crittendon
(c) Williams
(d) Watkins

8. How old is Robert in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) 12
(b) 7
(c) 16
(d) 9

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

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

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

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

13. The narrator says in “Residents and Transients,” “I complained for weeks about living with houses in view. I need” what?
(a) Rice fields
(b) Mountains
(c) Cornfields
(d) Cotton fields

14. How many years does Imogene say it’s been since they’ve been in Nashville in “The Ocean”?
(a) 15 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 35 years
(d) 20 years

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How old is Holly in “Graveyard Day”?

5. How long ago does the narrator say she came back to Kentucky in “Residents and Transients”?

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