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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who started the Partridge Festival?
(a) This information is never given.
(b) Calhoun’s great grandmother.
(c) Calhoun’s great grandfather.
(d) Calhoun’s great grandfather’s nemesis.

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

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

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

5. How old is Mr. Head?
(a) 20.
(b) 60.
(c) 80.
(d) 40.

6. Where do Julian and his mother go on Wednesday nights?
(a) To town.
(b) To the Y for an exercise class.
(c) To church.
(d) To dinner.

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

8. What does Mrs. May see out her window?
(a) A bull grazing.
(b) Her front yard vandalized.
(c) A fire behind the barn.
(d) Strangers lurking in the pastures.

9. What is Calhoun interested in?
(a) Fire.
(b) The Partridge Festival.
(c) Enoch the gorilla.
(d) Comic books.

10. What does Joy take off?
(a) Her wig.
(b) Her artificial leg.
(c) Her glasses.
(d) Her clothes.

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Asbury?

2. Who does Mrs. Hopewell live with?

3. What does Parker have on his back by the end of “Parker’s Back”?

4. What is wrong with Julian’s mother?

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

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