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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 old is Asbury?
(a) 40.
(b) 30.
(c) 45.
(d) 25.

2. Who steps out of the black car in “The Displaced Person”?
(a) Mrs. Cope.
(b) Mr. Shortley.
(c) A displaced family.
(d) Mrs. Shortley.

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

4. How old is Mary Fortune?
(a) Nine years old.
(b) Twelve years old.
(c) Mary Fortune is an infant.
(d) Three years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Julian and his mother go on Wednesday nights?

2. Who is Calhoun trying to vindicate?

3. What does Sheppard buy the boys?

4. Who comes to the front door in “Good Country People”?

5. What does Mrs. May see out her window?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

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

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

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

5. What does Rufus do to the neighbors?

6. Why does the college girl in “Revelation” have a seizure?

7. What happens to Mary Fortune?

8. Why is Mary George irritated with her brother?

9. What does Julian find embarrassing about his mother?

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

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