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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides her name and illness, what else does the girl fake in “The Comforts of Home”?
(a) The girls doesn’t fake anything else.
(b) Her suicide.
(c) Her age.
(d) Where she’s from.

2. What happens to Mrs. Turpin in the waiting room?
(a) She faints.
(b) An eighteen-year-old girl gets tired of hearing her and finally erupts in a fit, throwing a book at her.
(c) She drops her plate of cookies.
(d) A girl snatches her Bible and rips it in two.

3. What does Tarwater dig in “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?
(a) A well.
(b) A grave.
(c) A pit.
(d) A hole.

4. What does Mary George do for a living?
(a) She is a grocer.
(b) She does not work because she is a woman.
(c) She is the principal of an elementary school.
(d) She is a playwright.

5. Who does Mrs. McIntyre decide to fire?
(a) Mrs. Shortley.
(b) Mr. Shortley.
(c) The priest.
(d) No one.

6. What room does the girl in “The Comforts of Home” stay in?
(a) Thomas’s room.
(b) The living room.
(c) The guest room.
(d) Thomas’s mother’s room.

7. Where does the stroke happen in “Why Do the Heathen Rage”?
(a) At the state capitol.
(b) At the diner.
(c) At the grocery store.
(d) At the doctor’s office.

8. What so-called disease does the girl Thomas’s mother helps have in “The Comforts of Home”?
(a) “Nimpermania.”
(b) “Schizophrenia.”
(c) “Hypremesis gravidarum.”
(d) “Epilepsy.”

9. From what age has Mr. Head reared his grandson?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Fifteen.

10. What does Mrs. Turpin do in the waiting room?
(a) Passes out cookies to all of the other patients in the waiting room.
(b) Knit.
(c) Prattles on and on, boring and irritating all of the others that are waiting.
(d) Read her Bible murmuring prayers under her breath.

11. What does Francis Tarwater do to the cabin?
(a) He cleans the cabin.
(b) He lights matches and burns it down.
(c) He leaves the cabin.
(d) He floods the cabin.

12. Where do Joy and the Bible salesman go?
(a) To Georgia.
(b) They don’t go anywhere.
(c) To the hayloft in the barn.
(d) To the bedroom.

13. Where do the two fourteen year-old girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” attend school?
(a) They no longer attend school.
(b) The local public school.
(c) The local Catholic convent.
(d) In Mobile.

14. Who does Mrs. Hopewell live with?
(a) No one, she lives alone.
(b) Her 18-year-old son, Nelson.
(c) Her granddaughter, Emma.
(d) Her 32-year-old daughter, Joy.

15. Who steps out of the black car in “The Displaced Person”?
(a) Mr. Shortley.
(b) Mrs. Shortley.
(c) A displaced family.
(d) Mrs. Cope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Thomas live with?

2. Who comes to the front door in “Good Country People”?

3. Who dies in the beginning of “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?

4. Where do Mary and her family live in “A View of the Woods”?

5. How old is Thomas?

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