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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 is Mrs. Shortley?
(a) The farm owner.
(b) The displaced person.
(c) The wife of the hired hand.
(d) A widow.

2. Who has a stroke in “Why Do the Heathen Rage”?
(a) Mrs. Cope.
(b) Mr. Tilman.
(c) Walter.
(d) Walter’s mother.

3. What does Francis Tarwater do to the cabin?
(a) He floods the cabin.
(b) He lights matches and burns it down.
(c) He cleans the cabin.
(d) He leaves the cabin.

4. What does Mary George do for a living?
(a) She is a grocer.
(b) She is a playwright.
(c) She does not work because she is a woman.
(d) She is the principal of an elementary school.

5. Where do Mary and her family live in “A View of the Woods”?
(a) In the city.
(b) On the farm with her grandfather.
(c) On the farm next to her grandfather.
(d) Across town from her grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the mother realize Walter’s book is about?

2. What are Norton and Rufus both interested in?

3. Who believes that Thomas and the girl were scheming all along to kill his mother?

4. In “Good Country People”, who are the Freeman’s?

5. Who does the bull in “Greenleaf” kill?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Parker initially attracted to his wife?

2. What is Mrs. Tilman worried about?

3. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

4. What does Mrs. Turpin do in the waiting room?

5. What happens to Mary Fortune?

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

7. Why does Mrs. May want the bull removed from her pasture?

8. Why does Julian accompany his mother on the bus?

9. In what capacity does the grandson in “The Artificial Nigger” lose some of his self-assuredness?

10. What happens to Mr. Tilman?

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