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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. In the story The First Day, what time does the mother tell her daughter she will pick her up?
(a) Three.
(b) Noon.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

2. Where did Mrs. Kubiac go to try and find her daughter?
(a) Portland.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

3. In White Horse, who does the white horse belong to?
(a) He belongs to the restaurant owner.
(b) He is a retired circus horse.
(c) He belongs to the bus driver.
(d) He wandered into town without an owner.

4. In The Fat Girl, what did Louise's mother start talking to her about when Louise was eight years old?
(a) Attending high school.
(b) Attending college.
(c) Watching her weight.
(d) Her career.

5. In River of Names, who is the narrator's lover?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Bill.
(c) Marie.
(d) Thom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What show does Robert and his hosts end up watching on television?

2. What is Michael working on when he sits at the kitchen table in the evenings?

3. Where do Irene and the children move when they leave Flagstaff?

4. Who does Georgie pick up hitchhiking on the side of the road?

5. In The First Day, what does the mother say when she finds her daughter cannot attend Seaton?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the story A Romantic Weekend, where are Beth and her companion going for their romantic weekend, and how does the narrator describe the apartment?

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

3. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Quadberry get the scar over his right eye?

4. In the story Minor Heroism, who is Bryan, and what about him bothers his father?

5. In the story Rock Springs, how do Edna, Cheryl and the narrator end up in Rock Springs?

6. Where do the narrator of Emergency and his friend Georgie work and for how long? What do they do there?

7. Who is speaking in Girl, and to who is she directing her instructions?

8. What picture do the narrator of Catherdraland Robert draw and why?

9. What memory does Bryan relate in the third part of the story Minor Heroism?

10. What are some of the things the speaker in Girl encourages the young girl to learn how to do in the home?

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