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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who comes to the front door in “Good Country People”?
(a) No one comes to the front door.
(b) Nelson, the milkman
(c) The Freemans.
(d) A Bible salesman.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Calhoun find them when he arrives to visit someone in “The Partridge Festival”?

2. What are Norton and Rufus both interested in?

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

4. What does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell?

5. What is wrong with Julian’s mother?

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