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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. What does Georgie hit when he is driving around with the narrator after their shifts?
(a) A deer.
(b) A pregnant rabbit.
(c) A truck.
(d) A cow.

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

3. What did Louise sneak out of the kitchen when she was a young child?
(a) Homemade chocolate chip cookies.
(b) Peanut butter sandwiches.
(c) Her mother's diet pills.
(d) Diet cola.

4. What does Bryan tell his father to do with the picture he has drawn?
(a) He tells his father to throw it away.
(b) He tells his father to keep it.
(c) He tells his father to give it back to him.
(d) He tells his father to put it up on the wall.

5. What instructions does the speaker give in The Girl about eating?
(a) Eat alone so as to have some quiet time.
(b) Eat quickly so as to resume your duties.
(c) Eat so that you get the most food.
(d) Eat so that no one around you is disgusted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was the vintage Thunderbird?

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

3. In White Horse, who does the white horse belong to?

4. In the story Chopin in Winter, who is the first person in Mrs. Kubiac's family to graduate from high school and attend college?

5. When did Emily first meet Willi Varig?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the story Emergency, who is Terrence Weber? What unusual thing has happened to him?

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

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

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

7. In the story The Fat Girl,When Louise examines herself in a mirror, what parts of her body does she like? What parts does she hate?

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

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

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