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

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

3. What room does the girl in “The Comforts of Home” stay in?
(a) The guest room.
(b) Thomas’s mother’s room.
(c) The living room.
(d) Thomas’s room.

4. Who is Calhoun trying to vindicate?
(a) His mother.
(b) Nobody.
(c) Singleton.
(d) Calhoun’s great grandfather.

5. What is wrong with Julian’s mother?
(a) She is distraught that her son doesn’t live with her.
(b) She can no longer walk.
(c) She has dementia.
(d) She has cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Calhoun going to visit?

2. What is being built next to the grandfather’s property in “A View of the Woods”?

3. What does Francis Tarwater do to the cabin?

4. How old is Francis Tarwater?

5. What are Norton and Rufus both interested in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Asbury ask his mother to call for the priest?

2. Why does Tarwater destroy all evidence of his former life and move away?

3. What happens to Mr. Tilman?

4. Which character has the keenest sense of observation in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”?

5. Why is Parker initially attracted to his wife?

6. What is the cause of Mrs. McIntyre’s poor decision-making?

7. Why does Thomas hide the gun in the guest room?

8. What happens at the end of “The Displaced Person”? How is it an example of irony?

9. Why is the father irritated with his son in “The Lame Shall Enter First”?

10. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

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