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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 is Madam Zoleeda?
(a) Ruby's best friend.
(b) The palmist on highway 87.
(c) The woman who owns the local saloon.
(d) Rufus’s prostitute.

2. Where is Hazel Wickers expecting to sleep on the train?
(a) An upper berth.
(b) A lower berth.
(c) In a coach seat.
(d) In a first-class seat.

3. In “The Peeler”, what is the yellow-haired boy’s name?
(a) Hazel Motes.
(b) Old Gabriel.
(c) He isn’t given a name.
(d) Enoch Emery.

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

5. The barber calls Rayber what name __________.
(a) White Supremacist.
(b) Idiot.
(c) Mother Hubbard.
(d) Segregationist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?

3. Where does Rufus return home from?

4. In the beginning of “The Barbar”, what is Rayber reminiscing about?

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

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