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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 happens to Quadberry in the VIetnam war?
(a) He is injured flying a combat jet.
(b) He is injured by a bomb.
(c) He is injured in a car crash.
(d) He is injured in a tank explosion.

2. In the story Testimony of Pilot, what does Radcleve do to Quadberry?
(a) Throws a rock in his face.
(b) Throws a lit firecracker in his face.
(c) Trips him goign down the stairs.
(d) Beats him up.

3. What did Michael remember hearing as a child from the open window in his room?
(a) His parents singing.
(b) The discussions in the Kubiac's apartment.
(c) The sound of the traffic on the street.
(d) The Kubiacs fighting.

4. In the story A Romantic Weekend, where is the couple in the story going for the weekend?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Miami.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington, D.C.

5. What does the husband in Cathedral find disconcerting about Robert?
(a) Robert is only twenty years old.
(b) Robert is blind.
(c) Robert is a paraplegic.
(d) Robert is over seven feet tall.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Whose music does Dzia-Dzia hear while he sits at the other end of the kitchen table from Michael?

5. What did Louise sneak out of the kitchen when she was a young child?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. How does the woman in The Darling meet Lenny?

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

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

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

8. In the story Wickedness, what happens in Nebraska on the twelfth of January, 1888? How does this affect the townspeople?

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

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

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