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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the short story “Enoch and the Gorilla”, what does the sign on the truck advertise?
(a) Conga, the ape.
(b) Conga, the anaconda.
(c) Churros.
(d) Conga, the gorilla.

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

3. How is Rufus connected to Ruby?
(a) Rufus is Ruby’s husband.
(b) Rufus is Ruby’s baby brother.
(c) Rufus is Ruby’s son.
(d) Rufus is Ruby’s older brother.

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

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

6. What do the boys do in the woods behind the farm in “A Circle in the Fire”?
(a) Dig a hole.
(b) Run away.
(c) Kills farm animals.
(d) Swim in the water tank and then start a fire.

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

8. Why doesn’t the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” want to drive through Georgia?
(a) It is not in the direction that they need to go.
(b) A convict named the “Misfit” has escaped from the local penitentiary.
(c) She doesn’t like the heat.
(d) Her family is buried there.

9. Who dose Hazel accompany to the dining car?
(a) His mother.
(b) A woman whom he has been flirting with.
(c) The porter.
(d) Mrs. Hosen.

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

11. Who is Madam Zoleeda?
(a) The palmist on highway 87.
(b) The woman who owns the local saloon.
(c) Rufus’s prostitute.
(d) Ruby's best friend.

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

13. Who’s cabin does Mr. Shiflit walk to?
(a) Emma Macabee’s.
(b) Lucynell Carter’s.
(c) His mother’s.
(d) His sister’s.

14. Who does Hazel Motes follow down the street?
(a) The red-haired girl and the blind man.
(b) The baker.
(c) Enoch Emery.
(d) His father.

15. Whom does Mrs. Willerton become in her own story?
(a) She does not become part of her story.
(b) Lot’s wife.
(c) Lot’s sister.
(d) Lot’s brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the upper sleeping berth remind Hazel Wickers of?

2. How old is Ruller?

3. What does Ruller hike back to his town with?

4. Who is Mrs. Cope?

5. How old is Hazel Wickers?

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