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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 becomes deaf playing drums in a band in the story Testimony of Pilot?
(a) Radcleve.
(b) The narrator of the story.
(c) The narrator's younger brother.
(d) Lillian's brother.

2. What does Louise have hidden in the back of her closet behind her stuffed animals?
(a) Books on dieting.
(b) Colas.
(c) Pictures of thin women.
(d) Candy.

3. Where does Hattie Benedict move after the blizzard?
(a) Raleigh, North Carolina.
(b) Oakland, California.
(c) Sarasota, Florida.
(d) Seattle, Washington

4. In River of Names, what is the narrator certain she does not want to do?
(a) Go back to college.
(b) Have children.
(c) Get married.
(d) Tell stories.

5. 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 nervous.
(c) She is curious.
(d) She is thrilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Lillian die?

2. To whom was Robert married?

3. In River of Names, who is the narrator's lover?

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

5. In The Fat Girl, what did Louise's mother start talking to her about when Louise was eight years old?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Dzia-Dzia describe Chopin's death?

3. Who is Petra in Ann Beattie's story "A Vintage Thunderbird"?

4. In A Romantic Weekend, how long do Beth and her companion stay in Washington,D.C. and how do they return home? Why did they actually make the trip?

5. In the story Cathedral, who is Robert and how does he enter the story?

6. How does the narrator of Testimony of Pilot lose his hearing?

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

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

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

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

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