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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 565-651.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "My Dead Brother Comes to America," the family is waiting onshore for ____________.
(a) The mother.
(b) A priest.
(c) A policeman.
(d) The father.

2. In "My Dead Brother Comes to America," the family is coming from ___________________.
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Germany.
(d) The Ukraine.

3. In "Wild Plums" what is the narrator's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Stephanie.
(c) The reader is not told.
(d) Anna Marie.

4. Who wrote "The Hitch-Hikers"?
(a) E.B. White.
(b) Augusten Burroughs.
(c) Dorothy Parker.
(d) Eudora Welty.

5. In "Wild Plums" why does the narrator's father visit the Slump property?
(a) To go pluming.
(b) To arrange his daughter's marriage.
(c) To collect rent.
(d) To retrieve his plow.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Rotifer" what is the fiance's name?

2. In "A City of Churches" why do they need Cecilia to stay?

3. In "The Killers" what does Ole Anderson do when he learns that people want to kill him?

4. In "Theft" what is stolen?

5. In "The Other Woman" what is about to happen in the storyteller's life?

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