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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one neighbor tell the stranger about the young girls in "In the Garden"?
(a) They are better off without their mother.
(b) She thinks he kidnapped the girls.
(c) The girls are a figment of the woman's imagination.
(d) Their father was involved in the kidnapping.

2. Why are Faith and her friends visiting Selena in "Friends"?
(a) She just got divorced.
(b) She just had a baby.
(c) She is dying.
(d) It is her birthday.

3. What did the narrator once bring to school in sixth grade, according to Jack in "The Immigrant Story"?
(a) The Catholic Bible.
(b) Polish flags.
(c) The Torah.
(d) American flags.

4. What are Samuel and his friends doing at the start of "Samuel"?
(a) Jumping on the platform between subway cars.
(b) Begging for money on the subway.
(c) Jumping subway turnstiles.
(d) Playing poker on the platform between subway cars.

5. What story does Jack tell the narrator for the 30th time in "The Story Hearer"?
(a) How his grandfather was murdered when he was young.
(b) How his mother left when he was young.
(c) How his father died when he was young.
(d) How his father left when he was young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vicente do when he was drafted for the army?

2. What does the woman ask Mr. Zagrowsky at the start of "Zagrowsky Tells"?

3. What do the man and woman in "The Burdened Man" do each week after they forgive each other?

4. Why does Mrs. Luddy keep Donald inside the apartment?

5. What does Faith's father tell her that he and her ex, Ricardo, have been discussing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast the mothers at the playground in "Northeast Playground" to the mothers when the older woman was a young mother.

2. What happened to Selena's daughter Abby? What did Tonto say about Abby at the end?

3. In "Anxiety," why does the father get upset with his daughter says "oink, oink"?

4. What does Jack suspect is the real reason Faith wants a baby in "Listening"?

5. What conclusion does George come to after his pinball machine is rejected in "This Is a Story About My Friend George"?

6. Why is Ruthy sad at her 50th birthday party when her friends tell stories?

7. Why is the birth in "At That Time, or The History of a Joke" said to be a miracle?

8. What is Dotty Wasserman's role in the story "Love"?

9. What happens to Juniper in "Little Girl"?

10. What instances of Mr. Zargrowsky's racism does Faith cite in "Zagrowsky Tells"?

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