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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Stroke of Good Fortune.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of Mrs. Willerton’s main character Lot Motum?
(a) An Irish potato farmer.
(b) A barber.
(c) A sharecropper.
(d) A locomotive engineer.

2. What is in Ruby’s sack?
(a) Spinach.
(b) Her Bible.
(c) Four cans of beans.
(d) Shrimp and grits.

3. Who does Hazel Motes follow down the street?
(a) The baker.
(b) Enoch Emery.
(c) His father.
(d) The red-haired girl and the blind man.

4. What major political movement is coming up in “The Barber”?
(a) A senate vote.
(b) A presidential election.
(c) Invocation of new supreme court justices.
(d) A gubernatorial election.

5. How is Rufus connected to Ruby?
(a) Rufus is Ruby’s husband.
(b) Rufus is Ruby’s baby brother.
(c) Rufus is Ruby’s older brother.
(d) Rufus is Ruby’s son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Hazel Wickers expecting to sleep on the train?

2. What does Madam Zoleeda tell Ruby?

3. In “The Peeler”, what is the yellow-haired boy’s name?

4. Who tries to befriend Hazel Motes?

5. What does the upper sleeping berth remind Hazel Wickers of?

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