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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mona say is wrong with her?
(a) It is just her nerves.
(b) She has a broken heart.
(c) She has ptomaine poisoning.
(d) She has influenza.

2. During what year is the story "Just a Little One" set?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1919.

3. What does the poem "Superfluous Advice" suggest about gossip?
(a) Gossip should always be whispered, never spoken aloud.
(b) One should encourage gossip as long as it is untrue,
(c) Gossip is harmful and should be avoided.
(d) Gossip is good as long as it is about other people.

4. What does the narrator of "Cherry White" think of whenever she sees a cherry bough or a flowering tree?
(a) Children.
(b) Her lost love.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Spring.

5. Where does the narrator meet the fighters in "Soldiers of the Republic"?
(a) In a cafe in Paris.
(b) In a deli in Vienna.
(c) In a cafe in Valencia.
(d) In a bar in Sweden.

6. Hazel Morse prides herself most on what characteristic?
(a) Her small feet.
(b) Her large bust.
(c) Her tiny waist.
(d) Her deep blue eyes.

7. Why hasn't Garry sent flowers to Mona?
(a) Mona keeps sending the flowers back.
(b) He does not even know that she is sick.
(c) He knows that Mona does not like flowers.
(d) He is angry with Mona.

8. How long has the girl in the short story "The Last Tea" been waiting for the young man?
(a) Forty minutes.
(b) Over an hour.
(c) Twenty minutes.
(d) Five minutes.

9. In "Autumn Valentine" what experience did the narrator have in May?
(a) Death.
(b) A new-found love.
(c) A broken heart.
(d) A love for nature.

10. Who does the narrator say she thinks she is after three highballs?
(a) Marie Antoinette.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Joan of Arc.
(d) St. Francis of Assisi.

11. According to the poem " Two-Volume Novel," what has stopped the sun and moon from shining?
(a) The narrator's love interest does not love her back.
(b) The narrator has reached the end of her life.
(c) The end of the world has arrived.
(d) The dead of winter has cast a cloud over everything.

12. In the story "Lady With a Lamp," how long has Mona been in bed?
(a) Almost six weeks.
(b) Nearly two weeks.
(c) Almost three days.
(d) Over a month.

13. How is the narrator of "Sweet Violets" similar to the violets?
(a) They both require attention and care.
(b) They are both Heaven's masterpieces.
(c) They both emerge from hardship.
(d) They are both brief, frail, and blue.

14. What does the narrator of "Requiescat" pray "will not rise again"?
(a) The moon.
(b) Her love.
(c) The daisies.
(d) The sun.

15. Where would the narrator of "Distance" prefer to have her lover?
(a) Just down the lane.
(b) In her dreams.
(c) In her own home.
(d) On the other side of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse does the narrator suggest would have been better to explain Mona's "illness"?

2. Who is Mrs. Hofstadter who lives on Josephine Street?

3. In "The Little Hours," what time does the narrator wake?

4. What is the one "edged" thing in the poem "Midnight"?

5. According to the poem "Wisdom," what is a path to misery?

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