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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does the babysitter have in “The River”?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) None.
(d) 4.

2. In “The Train”, what doesn’t the upper sleeping berth have?
(a) A window.
(b) Access to the restroom.
(c) Sheets.
(d) A blanket.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Mrs. Cope suggest once they invade the property?
(a) That they wait for her husband to return.
(b) That they help clean up the mess they’ve made.
(c) She suggests nothing, but rather tells them that she’s calling the police.
(d) That they leave.

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

11. “The Barber” takes place in which town?
(a) Dilton.
(b) Savannah.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Millerville.

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

13. How old is General Sash?
(a) 87.
(b) 54.
(c) 70.
(d) 104.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the boy in “The River” say his name is (though it isn’t)?

3. What does Old Gabriel think he can smell?

4. Where is Old Dudley living?

5. What does Sally want her grandfather to attend?

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