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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 is Shelby’s last name in “The Retreat”?
(a) Stamper
(b) Pickett
(c) Cashon
(d) Wiggins
2. Where did Jack get Grover in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) A Humane Society shelter
(b) From his dying mother
(c) A small pet store
(d) A little kid outside Wal-Mart
3. Where did the narrator know Larry from before she began having an affair with him in “Residents and Transients”?
(a) He is her family doctor
(b) He is her dentist
(c) He is her mailman
(d) He owns a bookstore where she shops
4. What term does Jack use “for making the house energy-efficient” in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) Retrofitting
(b) Solarizing
(c) Restoring
(d) Repercolating
5. Nancy and her husband live in a small town an hour’s drive from what city in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) New York
(b) Philadelphia
(c) Cleveland
(d) Boston
Short Answer Questions
1. What ship that had been sunk at Pearl Harbor does Bill think about as he tries to sleep in the camper in “The Ocean”?
2. Where did Ruby meet the man she’s dating in “Third Monday”?
3. What is the name of Edwin’s first wife in “A New-Wave Format”?
4. How old is Joe when he comes to dinner at Waldeen’s in “Graveyard Day”?
5. What is the name of Nancy’s husband in “Nancy Culpepper”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Shelby Pickett described when Georgeann began dating him in “The Retreat”?
2. What does the narrator of “Residents and Transients” reveal in the beginning of the story? Who is the narrator?
3. What does Georgeann’s mother warn her of when Georgeann marries Shelby Pickett in “The Retreat”?
4. What is Edwin Creech doing in the opening of “A New-Wave Format”?
5. How is Grover Cleveland described in the beginning of “Lying Doggo”?
6. Why does Nancy return to her childhood home in “Nancy Culpepper”?
7. How are Ishmael and its owner described in “The Ocean”?
8. How are Nancy’s husband and son described in “Nancy Culpepper”?
9. What does Jack say about the people he’s cared about that have died in “Lying Doggo”?
10. What pop culture references are seen in the story “Graveyard Day”?
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