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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Partridge Festival.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Julian embarrassed by his mother?
(a) She gets drunk at dinner and is insulting to everyone.
(b) She insists on holding his hand.
(c) She falls and her teeth splay out of her mouth.
(d) She is patronizing and prejudice against the African Americans on the bus.

2. Where does Calhoun find them when he arrives to visit someone in “The Partridge Festival”?
(a) Bathing at the river.
(b) Grocery shopping.
(c) Sitting on the front porch.
(d) Cooking dinner.

3. How many children do Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf have?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) No children.

4. Who is Calhoun trying to vindicate?
(a) Calhoun’s great grandfather.
(b) His mother.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Singleton.

5. What does the upper sleeping berth remind Hazel Wickers of?
(a) His mother’s chiffarobe.
(b) A coffin.
(c) His back porch.
(d) His bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Greenleaf do with the articles she cuts out from the newspaper?

2. Where do Joy and the Bible salesman go?

3. What does the doctor want Julian’s mother to do?

4. How old is Asbury?

5. “The Barber” takes place in which town?

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