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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 do Lexington's parents get into the locked house?

2. What is the name of the woman Vic sleeps with?

3. What does Mabel say her daughter resembles at the end of the story?

4. What does the man who picks up the hitchhiker get pulled over for?

5. Where does Mrs. Bixby take her mink coat from the Colonel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the landlady do with all of her pets when they die?

2. What is royal jelly?

3. How does the hitchhiker save the narrator from getting a ticket?

4. Why does Klara think her last child will live?

5. What kind of factory does Claud want to start and why?

6. What does Mary do when she first sees what Landy has done for her husband when William dies?

7. How did Mrs. Bixby hide her affair for so long?

8. What strange things does Billy notice about the landlady?

9. In "The Great Switcheroo," what story does Vic tell Jerry and why?

10. What was the experiment used by the narrator in "Georgy Porgy" to understand women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Protection is a strong theme in these stories. Where does this theme appear, and which characters are most affected by the presence of this theme?

Essay Topic 2

Despair was an emotion that affected a number of the characters in these stories. Which characters were most affected by despair, and how did this change the course of the plots they were involved in?

Essay Topic 3

The pursuit of happiness was a common theme found in these stories. What stories embodied this theme, and how did that pursuit affect the characters involved?

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