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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. What disappoints Old Dudley at the end of the story?
(a) His friends never visit him anymore.
(b) He dislikes his bedroom.
(c) He burned the roast he was cooking.
(d) The geranium is not in the window.

5. 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) Heckling him.
(d) Being an unfit couple.

6. What does the grandmother have hiding under the newspaper in the backseat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) Her rosary beads.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Her cat.
(d) A flask.

7. What does Enoch Emery discover inside the museum?
(a) Urns.
(b) Mysterious calligraphic writing.
(c) A woman he likes to watch.
(d) A glass case with a handwritten card inside of it and mummified man.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Mr. Shiflit get running?
(a) The tractor.
(b) The old car.
(c) The icebox.
(d) The generator.

13. What does Ruller hike back to his town with?
(a) A turkey.
(b) A rock.
(c) A sandwich.
(d) Deer antlers.

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

15. What does Old Gabriel think he can smell?
(a) Rats.
(b) Milk.
(c) Lurkers outside his cabin.
(d) A wildcat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Madam Zoleeda?

2. In “A Circle in the Fire,” who is always looking out from the upstairs window?

3. How many children are traveling with the grandmother and her son in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

4. Who is Mrs. Cope?

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

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