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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Asbury do that is strictly against his mother’s rules?
(a) Drink beer.
(b) Take ladies for the night.
(c) Sip freshly drawn milk and smoke.
(d) Curse.

2. What happens to the girl in the waiting room in “Revelation”?
(a) She’s escorted away by the police.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She has a seizure and is taken away in an ambulance.
(d) Nothing, she sits back down.

3. Who is at Tilman’s house when he returns?
(a) His wife and son.
(b) His father.
(c) His neighbors.
(d) His mother.

4. Who does Mr. Head live with?
(a) Nelson, his brother.
(b) Nelson, his grandson.
(c) Nelson, his son.
(d) Nelson, his father.

5. Who does the bull in “Greenleaf” belong to?
(a) The Greenleaf twins.
(b) Mr. and Mrs. Greanleaf.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) Mrs. May.

6. What does Parker have all over the front of his body?
(a) A burn.
(b) Hair.
(c) A rash.
(d) Tattoos.

7. What animals does Mrs. Turpin water at the end of “Revelation”?
(a) Goats.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Cows.
(d) Horses.

8. Who are Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf?
(a) Owners of the farm.
(b) Hired hands on the farm.
(c) Mrs. May’s in-laws.
(d) Mrs. May’s neighbors.

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

10. How does the girl in “The Comforts of Home” treat Thomas?
(a) She mocks him.
(b) She dotes on him.
(c) She ignores him.
(d) She follows him around.

11. What does Mrs. Greenleaf do with the articles she cuts out from the newspaper?
(a) She buries them in the woods.
(b) She puts them in a scrapbook binder.
(c) She burns them in the fireplace.
(d) She irons them and places them in a bureau drawer.

12. How old is Francis Tarwater?
(a) Eighteen years old.
(b) Fourteen years old.
(c) Three years old.
(d) Ten years old.

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

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

15. What does Parker have on his back by the end of “Parker’s Back”?
(a) A tattoo of Jesus Christ.
(b) Hair.
(c) A rash.
(d) A tattoo of wife and son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Claud’s leg?

2. How many children do Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf have?

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

4. Who does Thomas live with?

5. What does Joy take off?

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