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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Pritchard?
(a) The neighbor.
(b) The owner of the farm.
(c) The wife of the hired-hand.
(d) A relative of the owner.

2. What does Madam Zoleeda tell Ruby?
(a) That Ruby owes her money.
(b) That Rufus is “good for nothin”.
(c) That she is sick.
(d) That she doesn’t like collard greens.

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

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

5. What was Old Dudley waiting for while looking out the window?
(a) The rain to stop.
(b) The geranium in his neighbor’s window.
(c) His lunch to finish cooking.
(d) The bus to arrive.

6. How old is the boy in “The River”?
(a) An infant.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

7. Ruby’s physical shape is compared to a ________?
(a) Reed.
(b) Raisin.
(c) Hog.
(d) Funeral urn.

8. What is Ruller pretending to be?
(a) A robot.
(b) A hunter.
(c) An Indian.
(d) A Wild West cowboy.

9. After the family rolls their car in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, what do the men in the passing car have?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) A tow truck.
(d) Guns.

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

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

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

13. Where does Emery go for something to eat in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?
(a) The churro cart.
(b) To his apartment.
(c) The Paris Diner.
(d) To the grocer.

14. What does Mrs. Willerton consider herself?
(a) A poet.
(b) A musician.
(c) A writer.
(d) An artist.

15. Who is John Wesley?
(a) A boy that Sash thinks of as his own son.
(b) Sally’s brother who no longer speaks to General Sash.
(c) Sally’s son who is graduating from college.
(d) A boy that Sally has arranged to wheel General Sash to the stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the profession of Mrs. Willerton’s main character Lot Motum?

2. What does Mrs. Cope suggest once they invade the property?

3. Who tries to befriend Hazel Motes?

4. What war did General Sash serve in?

5. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?

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