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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important lesson has "The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk" learned from life?
(a) There is nothing more fun than a man.
(b) Always keep company with people of your own social status.
(c) Never trust a younger man.
(d) Education is more important than any other pleasure.

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

3. What gift does the narrator give to the six soldiers as they leave?
(a) A cigarette lighter.
(b) Twenty dollars.
(c) The rest of her pack of cigarettes.
(d) A flask of whiskey.

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

5. What three poets are the subject of "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature"?
(a) John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.
(b) Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and Walt Whitman.
(c) William Wordsworth, William Blake, and John Keats.
(d) John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron.

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

7. 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.

8. Why does Hazel purchase the bottles of veronal?
(a) To help her lose weight.
(b) To help her sleep at night.
(c) To help her commit suicide.
(d) To help her deal with the pains in her back.

9. Throughout their marriage, how many evenings have the Weldons experienced that are similar to the one described in "Too Bad"?
(a) About six thousand.
(b) More than two thousand.
(c) Over fifteen thousand.
(d) Almost ten thousand.

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

11. What does the narrator wish for in the poem "Frustration"?
(a) That she had a way of killing all the people that bother her.
(b) That her lover would return to her.
(c) That she would always be prettier than the women around her.
(d) That she could find the perfect red dress.

12. What phrase does the narrator of "Coda" use to describe love?
(a) A treasured gift.
(b) An eternal bore.
(c) A dangerous delight.
(d) A permanent flop.

13. What emotion does the narrator of "Temps Perdu" feel when she sees a laurel tree in May?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hope.
(d) Joy.

14. Why does the narrator in "Thought for a Sunshiny Morning" not mind stepping on a worm?
(a) Thousands more live beneath the earth.
(b) The worm's body will feed the earth.
(c) She knows that worms will devour her when she is dead.
(d) She sees no purpose in their existence.

15. What has become a "bitterness" for the narrator if "Iseult of Brittany"?
(a) Her lost love.
(b) Her lovely hands.
(c) Her deep pride.
(d) Her frail cup.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hazel Morse prides herself most on what characteristic?

2. According to "From a Letter From Lesbia," why should you not take a poet as a lover?

3. What sight causes Hazel to lose her high spirits as she is on her way to meet Art?

4. In the story "Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street," what are the narrator and her husband looking for in a servant?

5. What does Hazel do with Mrs. Martin?

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