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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. Where does Emery go for something to eat in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?
(a) To the grocer.
(b) The Paris Diner.
(c) To his apartment.
(d) The churro cart.

2. Who returns from hunting in the short story “Wildcat”?
(a) The men and women in the community.
(b) The wildcat.
(c) Old Gabriel.
(d) Four young black men.

3. What is the profession of Mrs. Willerton’s main character Lot Motum?
(a) An Irish potato farmer.
(b) A barber.
(c) A locomotive engineer.
(d) A sharecropper.

4. What is chained in a Chinaberry tree outside the diner where they stop to eat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) A goat.
(b) A monkey.
(c) A cat.
(d) A donkey.

5. How old is the boy in “The River”?
(a) An infant.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sally want her grandfather to attend?

3. How old is Ruller?

4. Where is Old Dudley living?

5. Who is Mrs. Cope?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Ruby dread Rufus’s arrival?

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

4. Why is Hazel Motes reluctant to befriend Enoch Emery?

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

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

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

8. Why does Rayber change barbers?

9. How does Mrs. Willerton feel about her daily life?

10. Why does Hazel Wickers keep thinking about his mother?

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