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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator of the story Home do for a living while she is living with her mother?
(a) She is a tutor for remedial reading students.
(b) She is a math tutor.
(c) She is a second grade teacher.
(d) She is a school counselor.

4. Who is in the car with Arnold when he comes to Connie's house?
(a) HIs friend Ellie.
(b) Connie's friend Alice.
(c) No one.
(d) Connie's sister June.

5. What gender does Beth believe her baby to be?
(a) She does not know.
(b) A boy.
(c) Both: she think she has twins.
(d) A girl.

6. Where does the narrator of the story Home go on Saturdays?
(a) The movies.
(b) The Veterans of Foreign Wars rummage sales.
(c) The public library in the next town.
(d) The grocery store.

7. Who are Evie and Lydia?
(a) Margaret's daughters.
(b) Margaret's sisters.
(c) Margaret's granddaughters.
(d) Margaret's best friends.

8. In Aunt Granny Lith, when did Casey's first wife die?
(a) A month after the wedding.
(b) The day after the wedding.
(c) Six years after they were married.
(d) The day after their child was born.

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

10. What did the narrator of Rules of the Game receive at the annual church Christmas party?
(a) A doll.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A box of Life Savers.
(d) A chess set.

11. What person do both the narrator and her mother of Home think about simultaneously?
(a) Simon.
(b) Robert.
(c) Richard.
(d) Jason.

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

13. For the most part, what is one thing the narrator say determines what the soldiers carried with them?
(a) Nutrition.
(b) Orders.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Medical requirements.

14. What does Daddy Garbage discover in an alley?
(a) A bag of money.
(b) A wounded child.
(c) A dead baby.
(d) A puppy.

15. Why does Mr. Muirhead say he always talks to young men?
(a) Becaue his wife will not let him talk to young women.
(b) Because he is bored talking to his family.
(c) Because he is interested in young men.
(d) Because he is fascinated with their career choices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Acid Rain?

2. Where is the story Murderers set?

3. What do Connie and Arnold find they are both listening to on the radio at the same time?

4. Where does Strayhorn find his friend John?

5. Who does the narrator meet observing a chess game in the park one afternoon in Rules of the Game?

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