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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?
(a) Breaking the laws.
(b) Stealing his customers.
(c) Being an unfit couple.
(d) Heckling him.

3. What is chained in a Chinaberry tree outside the diner where they stop to eat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) A cat.
(b) A goat.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A monkey.

4. Where does Rufus return home from?
(a) A reformatory.
(b) Work overseas.
(c) Boarding school.
(d) The armed forces.

5. What happens to General Sash during the ceremony?
(a) He walks onstage.
(b) He dies.
(c) He refuses to go.
(d) He cries.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Madam Zoleeda tell Ruby?

3. In “The Train”, what doesn’t the upper sleeping berth have?

4. What season is it in “The Heart of the Park”?

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

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