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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been Mrs. Willerton’s job for over 50 years?
(a) To hang the laundry.
(b) To do the dishes.
(c) To crumb the table after a meal.
(d) To sweep the kitchen.

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

3. Who helps Old Dudley up the stairs?
(a) The apartment concierge.
(b) The taxi driver.
(c) The black man who is renting the apartment next to Old Dudley’s.
(d) His daughter when she returns home from work.

4. What is the profession of Mrs. Willerton’s main character Lot Motum?
(a) An Irish potato farmer.
(b) A sharecropper.
(c) A locomotive engineer.
(d) A barber.

5. What does Emery order at the diner in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?
(a) Pork chops.
(b) Coffee and pie.
(c) A piece of cake.
(d) Chicken-fried steak.

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

7. Who reappears in “The Heart of the Park”?
(a) Old Gabriel.
(b) Hazel Motes.
(c) Mrs. Willerton.
(d) Enoch Emery.

8. Who takes the turkey from Ruller?
(a) A group of men.
(b) The beggar woman.
(c) His mother.
(d) The beggar man.

9. Old Gabriel is _________?
(a) Mute.
(b) Crippled.
(c) Blind.
(d) Deaf.

10. How old is Lucynell’s daughter?
(a) 45.
(b) 55.
(c) 18.
(d) 30.

11. Who is Mrs. Cope?
(a) The neighbor.
(b) The hired-hand’s wife.
(c) The grandmother of the farm owner.
(d) The owner of the farm.

12. How many children are traveling with the grandmother and her son in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

13. Whom does Ruller give a dime to?
(a) The hunter.
(b) His older brother.
(c) The beggar man.
(d) The beggar woman.

14. 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 donkey.
(b) A cat.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A goat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Old Dudley living?

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

3. Who does Mr. Shiflit marry?

4. Who dose Hazel accompany to the dining car?

5. The barber calls Rayber what name __________.

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