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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 is Rufus connected to Ruby?
(a) Rufus is Ruby’s older brother.
(b) Rufus is Ruby’s baby brother.
(c) Rufus is Ruby’s son.
(d) Rufus is Ruby’s husband.

2. In “A Circle in the Fire,” who is always looking out from the upstairs window?
(a) Mrs. Cope’s 12-year-old daughter.
(b) Mrs. Cope.
(c) Mrs. Pritchard.
(d) Mr. Cope.

3. Whose perspective is “The Crop” told in?
(a) Garner’s.
(b) Lucia’s.
(c) Lot Motum’s.
(d) Mrs. Willteron’s.

4. What does Mrs. Willerton consider herself?
(a) A writer.
(b) An artist.
(c) A poet.
(d) A musician.

5. Who is Madam Zoleeda?
(a) Rufus’s prostitute.
(b) Ruby's best friend.
(c) The woman who owns the local saloon.
(d) The palmist on highway 87.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the red-haired girl and the blind man doing in “The Peeler”?

3. Where does “The Heart of the Park” take place?

4. What does the boy in “The River” say his name is (though it isn’t)?

5. What is Old Gabriel afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ruller afraid something bad is about to happen?

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

3. How does O’Connor use foreshadowing in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

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

5. What is Old Gabriel afraid of besides the wildcat?

6. Why is it ironic that the young boy’s parents are going to the river to the baptisms in “The River”?

7. How do the boys invade the farm, despite the widow asking them to leave in “A Circle in the Fire”?

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

9. What does Old Dudley think about New York?

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

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