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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hazel do with Mrs. Martin?
(a) They go shopping together.
(b) They complain about their husbands.
(c) They gossip about their neighbors.
(d) They drink and play cards.

2. Who is Garry McVicker?
(a) A man that the narrator would like Mona to meet.
(b) The man who left Mona for another woman.
(c) The doctor who performed Mona's "procedure."
(d) Mona's servant who is looking after her.

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

4. Why does Gerald Cruger avoid looking at Miss Wilmarth in the story "Horsie"?
(a) He thinks she might think he is making a pass at her.
(b) He expects her to toss her head and whinny.
(c) He is afraid that she might ask to stay on longer.
(d) He feels guilty for all of the awful things he has said about her.

5. Why does the narrator refuse to count sheep?
(a) Counting sheep is for children.
(b) She hates sheep.
(c) She does not like to count.
(d) She does not want to fall back asleep.

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

7. What is the narrator's dilemma in the poem "Dilemma"?
(a) She loves two men but cannot choose between them.
(b) Her lover would be scared away whether she were meek or strong.
(c) Her lover wants her to change, but she needs to be true to herself.
(d) She cannot choose between comfort and true love.

8. What does the narrator say would help Mona?
(a) A big bowl of chicken soup.
(b) Calling Garry up on the phone.
(c) Getting dressed and going out for the evening.
(d) Getting married and having children.

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

10. According to "From a Letter From Lesbia," why should you not take a poet as a lover?
(a) All of them are strange.
(b) Poets are unreliable.
(c) They are all too serious.
(d) All poets are poor.

11. To what story does "The Maid-Servant at the Inn" allude?
(a) Pilgrim's Progress.
(b) The birth of Jesus.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) The Odyssey.

12. What is the message behind the poem "Fable"?
(a) Never give up on a true love.
(b) Revenge is never the answer.
(c) Former lovers can never be true friends.
(d) If you lose one love, others will be close behind.

13. Which historical figure keeps intruding upon the narrator's thoughts?
(a) Sartre.
(b) De Tocqueville.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) La Rochefoucauld.

14. How long have Mr. and Mrs. Weldon been married in the story "Too Bad"?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Twenty-five years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Twelve years.

15. According to the narrator, what does Edith look like?
(a) Something that would eat her young.
(b) Something that should be pulling a cart.
(c) Something that should be kept in a cage.
(d) Something that crawled out of the alley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Murdock feel about her dress as she leaves her visit with Miss Noyes and Lily Wynton?

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

3. According to the poem " Two-Volume Novel," what has stopped the sun and moon from shining?

4. How does Herbie react when Hazel begins to drink Scotch?

5. According to the poem "Reuben's Children" what sort of people are cursed?

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