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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 211-294.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Christmas Gift" who is having a baby?
(a) The boy's sister.
(b) The boy's mother.
(c) The family dog.
(d) The neighbor's wife.

2. Who wrote "Christmas Gift"?
(a) Robert Penn Warren.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Henry Miller.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. Who wrote "Theft"?
(a) Sam Collins.
(b) Fannie Flagg.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) Katherine Anne Porter.

4. In "The Killers" why do the two men want to kill Ole Anderson?
(a) The reader is not told.
(b) Ole killed their brother.
(c) Ole owes money to his bookie.
(d) Ole is a Communist.

5. In "Christmas Gift" the boy is looking for __________.
(a) The doctor.
(b) A priest.
(c) The storekeeper.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "That in Aleppo Once..." how does the narrator feel at the end of the story?

2. In "My Dead Brother Comes to America," what does the family do after they are all in the new home?

3. Who wrote "The Other Woman"?

4. In "My Dead Brother Comes to America," how did the brother die?

5. In "The Hitch-Hikers" who receives the guitar in the end?

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