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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. 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) Winston Churchill's
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt's
(d) Theodore Roosevelt's

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

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

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

5. How many hours did it take Bill and Imogene to reach Nashville, according to the narrator in the beginning of “The Ocean”?
(a) 5
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 9

Short Answer Questions

1. What restaurant does Joe say has “Liver Lover’s Night” on Tuesdays in “Graveyard Day”?

2. 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”?

3. Who are the romantic leads in the play Sabrina’s in, in “A New-Wave Format”?

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

5. The narrator of “Residents and Transients” says that “there are a few here who think” what place “in Louisville would be the grandest place in the world to be”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Shelby Pickett described when Georgeann began dating him in “The Retreat”?

2. How much money do Bill and Imogene have with them as they travel in “The Ocean”? Where are they going?

3. How are Ishmael and its owner described in “The Ocean”?

4. What pop culture references are seen in the story “Graveyard Day”?

5. How is the interstate highway compared with the ocean in “The Ocean”?

6. What does Waldeen come to view as a symbol for marriage in “Graveyard Day”?

7. How is Grover Cleveland described in the beginning of “Lying Doggo”?

8. How are Nancy’s husband and son described in “Nancy Culpepper”?

9. How did Mary meet her husband in “Residents and Transients”? How are Mary and her husband similar?

10. What does Gladys tell Ruby about Buddy at the market when he’s not there in “Third Monday”?

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