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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Hazel Wickers?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Nineteen.

2. Ruby’s physical shape is compared to a ________?
(a) Funeral urn.
(b) Reed.
(c) Raisin.
(d) Hog.

3. How old is General Sash?
(a) 54.
(b) 87.
(c) 104.
(d) 70.

4. What does Hazel Weaver want from Enoch Emery?
(a) The address of the red-haired girl and the blind man.
(b) An ice cream soda.
(c) To stop spying on the sunbathing women.
(d) Friendship.

5. Who does Hazel Motes follow down the street?
(a) Enoch Emery.
(b) The red-haired girl and the blind man.
(c) The baker.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Madam Zoleeda?

2. In “A Circle in the Fire,” who is always looking out from the upstairs window?

3. Whose perspective is “The Crop” told in?

4. Who takes the turkey from Ruller?

5. Who asked Old Dudley if he wanted to go for a walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the General dying at the commencement a form of irony?

2. Though General Sash does not want to go to his granddaughter’s graduation, why does he agree to anyhow?

3. Why doesn’t the grandmother want to drive through Georgia in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

4. Why is Enoch convinced that he must show Hazel Weaver the mummified man?

5. What does Old Dudley think about New York?

6. What does Enoch Emery’s daily routine consist of?

7. Why does Ruby dread Rufus’s arrival?

8. What happens at the end of “A Circle in the Fire”?

9. Why doesn’t the hitchhiker ride with Mr. Shiflet when he pulls over for him?

10. Why does Rayber change barbers?

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