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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. Who dose Hazel accompany to the dining car?
(a) The porter.
(b) Mrs. Hosen.
(c) His mother.
(d) A woman whom he has been flirting with.

2. What does Madam Zoleeda tell Ruby?
(a) That she is sick.
(b) That Ruby owes her money.
(c) That Rufus is “good for nothin”.
(d) That she doesn’t like collard greens.

3. How old is Hazel Wickers?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Ten.

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

5. In “The Train”, what doesn’t the upper sleeping berth have?
(a) Access to the restroom.
(b) A window.
(c) A blanket.
(d) Sheets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose perspective is “The Crop” told in?

2. Whom does Mrs. Willerton become in her own story?

3. What major political movement is coming up in “The Barber”?

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

5. What are the red-haired girl and the blind man doing in “The Peeler”?

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