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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Everything that Rises Must Converge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mr. Shiflit marry?
(a) Lucynell’s daughter.
(b) Lucynell.
(c) He does not marry anyone.
(d) The diner waitress.

2. Who returns from hunting in the short story “Wildcat”?
(a) The wildcat.
(b) Old Gabriel.
(c) The men and women in the community.
(d) Four young black men.

3. What so-called disease does the girl Thomas’s mother helps have in “The Comforts of Home”?
(a) “Schizophrenia.”
(b) “Nimpermania.”
(c) “Epilepsy.”
(d) “Hypremesis gravidarum.”

4. Where do the girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” go with the boys on a date?
(a) To the movies.
(b) To a diner.
(c) To the roller-rink.
(d) To the fair.

5. Who dies in the beginning of “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?
(a) Francis Tarwater.
(b) Francis Tarwater’s great uncle.
(c) Francis Tarwater’s father.
(d) Francis Tarwater’s

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian’s mother wear on the bus?

2. After the family rolls their car in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, what do the men in the passing car have?

3. Whom does Ruller give a dime to?

4. The barber calls Rayber what name __________.

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

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