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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) Calhoun’s great grandfather.
(b) This information is never given.
(c) Calhoun’s great grandmother.
(d) Calhoun’s great grandfather’s nemesis.

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

3. Who is disgusted with Asbury?
(a) His sister, Mary George.
(b) The professor.
(c) The priest.
(d) His mother, Emme Lee.

4. Who finds out about who Mrs. McIntyre intends to fire before it is done in “The Displaced Person”?
(a) Mr. McIntyre.
(b) Mrs. Shortley.
(c) Mr. Shortley.
(d) The priest.

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

6. What is the girl’s real name in “The Comforts of Home”?
(a) Sarah Hamm.
(b) Ruth Hampton.
(c) Star Drake.
(d) Raylee Jones.

7. Who is Calhoun going to visit?
(a) His sister and aunt.
(b) His two great-aunts.
(c) His cousins.
(d) His mother and sister.

8. What happened to Norton’s mother?
(a) Nothing happened to Norton’s mother.
(b) She died a little over a year ago.
(c) She was burned and is not in a wheel chair.
(d) She was left by Norton’s father.

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

10. What happened to Claud’s leg?
(a) He fell off of his bicycle.
(b) It got caught in a tractor turbine.
(c) One of the cows kicked him in the shin.
(d) He has the gout.

11. What does Thomas hide in the guest room in the hopes that the girl will find it?
(a) A fish.
(b) A revolver.
(c) A dead cat.
(d) Morphine.

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

13. 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 falls and her teeth splay out of her mouth.
(d) She is patronizing and prejudice against the African Americans on the bus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is the grandfather in “A View of the Woods”?

3. What happens to Mrs. Shortley?

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

5. Who does Thomas’s mother help?

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