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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two teenage girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” call themselves?
(a) Emma and Jane.
(b) Lovelies.
(c) Temple One and Temple Two.
(d) Lady One and Lady Two.

2. What does the doctor want Julian’s mother to do?
(a) Gain weight.
(b) Lose weight.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Visit Julian often.

3. How many children do Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf have?
(a) Two.
(b) Eight.
(c) No children.
(d) Five.

4. Who is Mrs. Shortley?
(a) The wife of the hired hand.
(b) A widow.
(c) The farm owner.
(d) The displaced person.

5. How old is Calhoun?
(a) 31
(b) 48.
(c) 23.
(d) 63

6. How many grandchildren are in “A View of the Woods”?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) There are no grandchildren in this story.

7. Where is Asbury going?
(a) To New York City.
(b) Home to Corinth.
(c) To Savannah.
(d) Home to Timberboro.

8. Why is Julian embarrassed by his mother?
(a) She gets drunk at dinner and is insulting to everyone.
(b) She insists on holding his hand.
(c) She is patronizing and prejudice against the African Americans on the bus.
(d) She falls and her teeth splay out of her mouth.

9. What does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell?
(a) Bootlegged alcohol.
(b) Small plots of land from his farm.
(c) Firearms.
(d) Livestock from his farm.

10. What was Parker initially intrigued by his wife?
(a) Her religion.
(b) Her beautiful dark hair.
(c) Her meekness.
(d) She ignored his advances.

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

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

13. In “Good Country People”, who are the Freeman’s?
(a) Relatives of Mrs. Hopewell.
(b) Hired help.
(c) The farm owners.
(d) Neighbors of Mrs. Hopewell.

14. How old is Thomas?
(a) Twenty-five years old.
(b) Twenty years old.
(c) Thirty-five years old.
(d) Thirty years old.

15. How old is the grandfather in “A View of the Woods”?
(a) 43 years old.
(b) 79 years old.
(c) 50 years old.
(d) 55 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Parker sitting in “Parker’s Back”?

2. Who has a stroke in “Why Do the Heathen Rage”?

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

4. What do Mr. Head and his grandson forget on the train?

5. Who does the bull in “Greenleaf” kill?

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