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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Jane's parents drinking on the train?
(a) The Starlight Lounge.
(b) The Starstruck Lounge.
(c) The Stargazers Lounge.
(d) The Starlit Room.

2. How are the characters in Trains traveling to Florida?
(a) By car.
(b) By bus.
(c) By train.
(d) By boat.

3. How old is Connie in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Fifteen.

4. In Daddy Garbage, who is Lemuel Strayhorn?
(a) A shoe salesman.
(b) A policeman.
(c) An ice cream peddler.
(d) A snowball cart owner.

5. In the story Murderers, what does Melvin Bloom tell the boys on the corner one summer afternoon?
(a) The rabbi is home with his wife.
(b) Marsha Bernstein is walking toward them.
(c) The donut shop is giving away donuts.
(d) There is a craps game in the alley.

6. What does the priest read while he is sitting at his mother's death bed?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Einstein.

7. What does the narrator of Men Under Water do for a living?
(a) He is an experienced playwriter.
(b) He is poet.
(c) He is an actor.
(d) He is a handyman and general helper.

8. Where does Beth tell Casey he has to go by himself the evening of the full moon?
(a) To Flatgap and into the log.
(b) To Flatgap to make a bonfire.
(c) To the doctor to get a check up.
(d) To town to get a crib.

9. In Lawns, what room has the narrator reserved at the hotel?
(a) The Bridal Suite.
(b) The Penthouse.
(c) The Washington Room.
(d) The Annex Room.

10. Who gives birth at the end of Daddy Garbage?
(a) Abigail.
(b) Lizabeth.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Liza.

11. What did Aunt Granny Lith ask Casey to do?
(a) To move her.
(b) To kill her.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To love her.

12. In Home, why does Daniel not want the narrator to see his back?
(a) Because he believes it is bad luck.
(b) Because of his deformity.
(c) Because of his wounds from Vietnam.
(d) Because he is very hairy.

13. How does Sparky Smith die?
(a) He falls off a cliff.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He drowns.
(d) He is hit by a car.

14. Where does the narrator of Lawns work?
(a) In the department store in her college town.
(b) In the bank on her college campus.
(c) In the mailroom of her dormitory.
(d) In the library of her college.

15. Five years after her husband dies, with what is the priest's mother suffering?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Senility.
(c) Parkinson's.
(d) Epilepsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Muirhead say he always talks to young men?

2. What does Daddy Garbage discover in an alley?

3. Who dies on the day of the narrator's story in Murderers?

4. In the story Helping, who is Vopotik?

5. In Murderers, who runs the camp to which the narrator goes in New Jersey?

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