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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. Who takes the turkey from Ruller?
(a) The beggar woman.
(b) A group of men.
(c) His mother.
(d) The beggar man.

2. Who helps Old Dudley up the stairs?
(a) The taxi driver.
(b) The apartment concierge.
(c) The black man who is renting the apartment next to Old Dudley’s.
(d) His daughter when she returns home from work.

3. Where are the characters going when “A Good Man is Hard to Find” opens?
(a) On a car trip to Florida.
(b) On a car trip to Georgia.
(c) On a car trip to Tennessee.
(d) On a car trip to New York.

4. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?
(a) Being an unfit couple.
(b) Breaking the laws.
(c) Stealing his customers.
(d) Heckling him.

5. Who does Mr. Shiflit marry?
(a) He does not marry anyone.
(b) Lucynell’s daughter.
(c) Lucynell.
(d) The diner waitress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Old Dudley waiting for while looking out the window?

2. What has been Mrs. Willerton’s job for over 50 years?

3. What season is it in “The Heart of the Park”?

4. “The Barber” takes place in which town?

5. How old is Ruller?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn’t Hazel Wickers believe that the porter’s father was a railroad engineer?

2. Why does Rayber’s old barber call him a “mother hubbard”?

3. What does Mrs. Willerton wish that she had more time for?

4. Why is the man in the gorilla suit irritated with Enoch?

5. What does Old Dudley think about New York?

6. How does Mr. Shiflet convince the widow of his sincerity?

7. Who is Rabie?

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

9. Who is Leora?

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

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