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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. What is stolen from Joy?
(a) Her wig.
(b) Her artificial leg.
(c) Her virginity.
(d) Her clothes.

3. Who believes that Thomas and the girl were scheming all along to kill his mother?
(a) His mother.
(b) The neighbors.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The church people.

4. What do the teenagers on a date in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” see in the “freak show” tent?
(a) A giant man.
(b) A hermaphrodite.
(c) A bearded lady.
(d) A little person.

5. Where are Mr. and Mrs. Turpin?
(a) At home.
(b) In a doctor’s waiting room.
(c) At the state capitol.
(d) At the grocery store.

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

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

8. Where does Rufus Johnson go to live once he’s released from the reformatory?
(a) With his parents.
(b) To his grandparents.
(c) In the apartment above the grocer’s.
(d) With Sheppard and Norton.

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

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

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

12. Who does Thomas accidentally shoot?
(a) The girl.
(b) Himself.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) His mother.

13. Who dies in the beginning of “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?
(a) Francis Tarwater’s father.
(b) Francis Tarwater.
(c) Francis Tarwater’s
(d) Francis Tarwater’s great uncle.

14. What are Norton and Rufus both interested in?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Football.
(c) Botany.
(d) Fishing.

15. Where do Mary and her family live in “A View of the Woods”?
(a) On the farm with her grandfather.
(b) Across town from her grandfather.
(c) On the farm next to her grandfather.
(d) In the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary George do for a living?

2. What does Sheppard buy the boys?

3. What happened to Claud’s leg?

4. What does Tarwater dig in “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?

5. What does Mrs. Turpin do in the waiting room?

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