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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements is not marital advice Estelle gives her son?
(a) Give your wife expensive gifts.
(b) Wash dishes.
(c) Vacuum.
(d) Do the laundry.

2. What does Estelle's son say he sometimes feels like instead of her son?
(a) Her student.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her father.

3. What does Marie want William to do instead of catch his plane?
(a) Drive the kids to school.
(b) Go fishing.
(c) Quit his job.
(d) Stay in bed and make love.

4. Where do David and Sharon find a lost cat?
(a) In a dumpster.
(b) In Sharon's college dorm.
(c) In an alley.
(d) In some blackberry bushes.

5. What does Jackson buy with his initial twenty-five dollars?
(a) Food.
(b) A hotel room.
(c) A haircut and shave.
(d) Alcohol.

6. Near the end of "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above," what do Estelle and her son notice on the back of the white dress of a woman walking along the street?
(a) A large tear.
(b) A big grass stain.
(c) A paint stain.
(d) A large blood stain.

7. After Jackson spends his lottery winnings, who gives him another twenty-five dollars?
(a) The pawnshop owner.
(b) Rose of Sharon.
(c) Officer Williams.
(d) Junior.

8. What does Estelle's son like about Indian men?
(a) Their ceremonies.
(b) Their healing magic.
(c) Their totems.
(d) Their long hair, colorful clothes, and singing and dancing.

9. What does David's mother do for a living?
(a) She's an actress.
(b) She's a dentist.
(c) She's a corporate attorney.
(d) She's a seamstress.

10. How much money does Jackson initially have for redeeming the pow-wow regalia?
(a) One dollar.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Fifty cents.

11. What did the taxi driver study at Oxford?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Law.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Physics.

12. How many questions does Sharon tell David he can ask about what she confesses to him?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) As many as he wants.
(d) Three.

13. What happens to Sharon when she and David are sixty-six years old?
(a) She develops a terminal case of cancer.
(b) She falls in love with another man.
(c) She breaks a hip.
(d) She catches a burglar.

14. Whose pow-wow dance regalia does Jackson think he spots in a pawnshop window?
(a) His tribal chief's.
(b) His own.
(c) His father's.
(d) His grandmother's.

15. What does Jackson do with his lottery winnings?
(a) Gives away twenty and spends the rest on alcohol.
(b) Takes a cab ride to the reservation.
(c) Buys Rose of Sharon flowers.
(d) Buys more lottery tickets.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Do You Know Where I Am?", what does David do when the lost cat's owner comes to reclaim him.

2. How is Marie's hair in "Flight Patterns"?

3. What do Sharon's parents do for a living?

4. How does William wear his hair?

5. What does Sharon's confession initially make David want to do to her?

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