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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the daughter of the family who adopts the pit bull named Charlie in "A Full Service Shelter"?

2. In "The Chicane," how old was Lauryn when she got pregnant?

3. What is the narrator's second choice of tree to buy in "Fort Bedd"?

4. Where is the Presa Canarios bred from?

5. At the end of "Four Calls in the Last Half Hour," what does the narrator say that the man does?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Four Calls in the Last Half Hour," what does the narrator say about the man and his actions?

2. What does the narrator do when Syd returns in "I Stay with Syd"?

3. What does the narrator know about being angry about the affair in "Greed"?

4. How are the dogs put down?

5. Why did Lauryn try to commit suicide in Madrid, and why did she survive?

6. How does the narrator describe Mrs. Greed?

7. What does the narrator say about the affair between Syd and a married man?

8. What does the narrator want to tell her aunt Lauryn, even though she is gone?

9. What are the dolls like in the "Doll Tornado"?

10. What is said about Mrs. Greed, her husband, and how she treats her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Genre is a classification in literature. What is the genre of the book and why?

Essay Topic 2

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. What is the overall mood of the stories and the book?

Essay Topic 3

The house in “Cloudland” is decaying and needs a lot of repairs. In what way is the house an analogy for the narrator’s state of mind?

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