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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mother in “The River” doing in the beginning of the story?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Working.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Sleeping.

2. Whose perspective is “The Crop” told in?
(a) Lot Motum’s.
(b) Lucia’s.
(c) Mrs. Willteron’s.
(d) Garner’s.

3. What does the boy in “The River” say his name is (though it isn’t)?
(a) Enoch.
(b) Raybar.
(c) Robbie.
(d) Bevel.

4. What time does the babysitter pick up the boy in “The River”?
(a) Six o’clock in the evening.
(b) At noon.
(c) Six o’clock in the morning.
(d) Five o’clock in the morning.

5. Emery discovers what about the gorilla?
(a) That the gorilla has feelings.
(b) That the gorilla is really a man.
(c) That there is really no gorilla.
(d) That he eats people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the grandmother have hiding under the newspaper in the backseat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

2. Who dose Hazel accompany to the dining car?

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

4. Who reappears in “The Heart of the Park”?

5. How many customers are in the diner in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?

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