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

2. As A Vintage Thunderbird opens, who are the people driving from Virginia to New York?
(a) Mick and Karen.
(b) Nick and Karen.
(c) Mick and Susan.
(d) Nick and Lauren.

3. What Neil Young song does Georgie sing as he preps Mr. Weber?
(a) Sail Away.
(b) Southern Man.
(c) Cowgirl in the Sand.
(d) Cinnamon Girl.

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

5. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Lillian die?
(a) She dies in a car crash.
(b) She is murdered in her apartment.
(c) A bomb explodes in a plane on which she is a stewardess.
(d) She contracts cancer and dies within a year.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the father in the story Minor Heroism do for a living?

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

4. When did Emily first meet Willi Varig?

5. Who is telling the story of the first day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In the story All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona, what does Walter keep hidden in the wheel well of the spare tire in the car? Why?

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Who is Hattie Benedict in Wickedness, and how does she survive the blizzard?

10. 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?

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