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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. What is the girl’s real name in “The Comforts of Home”?
(a) Sarah Hamm.
(b) Star Drake.
(c) Ruth Hampton.
(d) Raylee Jones.

2. What happens to Mrs. Shortley?
(a) She has a massive stroke.
(b) She has a heart attack.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She breaks her leg.

3. What does Mrs. Turpin do in the waiting room?
(a) Read her Bible murmuring prayers under her breath.
(b) Passes out cookies to all of the other patients in the waiting room.
(c) Prattles on and on, boring and irritating all of the others that are waiting.
(d) Knit.

4. What does Mrs. Greenleaf do with the articles she cuts out from the newspaper?
(a) She irons them and places them in a bureau drawer.
(b) She buries them in the woods.
(c) She puts them in a scrapbook binder.
(d) She burns them in the fireplace.

5. Why is Julian embarrassed by his mother?
(a) She is patronizing and prejudice against the African Americans on the bus.
(b) She falls and her teeth splay out of her mouth.
(c) She gets drunk at dinner and is insulting to everyone.
(d) She insists on holding his hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf have?

2. Who is Calhoun trying to vindicate?

3. Who is Mrs. Shortley?

4. What happens to Mrs. Turpin in the waiting room?

5. Where is Mr. Head and the family member he lives with going?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the two teenage girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” hypocritical?

2. How does the old man wish to be buried in “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?

3. Why is Mary George irritated with her brother?

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

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

6. Under what assumption does the daughter in “Good Country People” and mother trust the Bible salesman?

7. Who is supposed to shoot the bull in “Greanleaf”?

8. Why does the conman steal the daughter’s artificial leg?

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

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

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