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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Georgie pick up hitchhiking on the side of the road?
(a) A young woman escaping a horrible husband.
(b) A young man AWOL from the army trying to get to Canada.
(c) A young woman who has been shot.
(d) A young man running from the police.

2. What does the couple decide to do after their first night together on their romantic weekend?
(a) Return home.
(b) Read the Sunday paper.
(c) Take a long walk.
(d) Go to a museum.

3. How does the protagonist in Tall Tales from the Mekong Deltareact when Lenny shows up at her house unannounced?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is thrilled.
(c) She is curious.
(d) She is nervous.

4. Who are Louise's two girl friends in high school?
(a) Joan and Marjorie.
(b) Joan and Harriet.
(c) Jessica and Marie.
(d) Jean and Melanie.

5. How old is the new county school teacher in Wickedness?
(a) Thirty nine.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Twenty five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes deaf playing drums in a band in the story Testimony of Pilot?

2. In Talk of Heroes, Who is Willi Varig?

3. What unusual injury befalls Terrence Weber in Emergency?

4. In River of Names, what does the narrator's lover accuse her of?

5. What does Louise have hidden in the back of her closet behind her stuffed animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ad Magic in the beginning of A White Horse, and how do the people he is with react to his situation?

2. Where does Magic find the white horse, in what condition is the horse, and who does he call for help?

3. In the story Chopin in Winter, what do Michael and Dzia-Dzia talk about at night and why?

4. Why does Delores kill her husband Michael in Scott Bradfield's story "The Darling"?

5. What story does Edna tell the narrator of Rock Springs about her pet, a monkey?

6. Who are the main characters in River of Names, and how are they different from each other?

7. In Carol Bly's story "Talk of Heroes," who is Willi Varig?

8. In the story The First Day, where are the mother and child going at the opening of the story? Why is this an important day?

9. In The Fat Girl, what is the secret that follows Louise from high school to college?

10. Who does the mother in the story The First Day ask the woman at Walker Jones School and why?

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