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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. Why is Grace angry with Elliot throughout the story?
(a) Elliot has invited his uncle to live with them.
(b) Elliot is having an affair.
(c) Elliot is drinking again.
(d) Elliot is stealing drugs.

2. What did the narrator of Rules of the Game receive at the annual church Christmas party?
(a) A box of Life Savers.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A chess set.
(d) A doll.

3. Where do Gunther and the narrator meet in the morning?
(a) The Wonderland Diner.
(b) The Peter Pan Diner.
(c) The Stubborn Spoon Diner.
(d) The Shrek Diner.

4. In Murderers, who runs the camp to which the narrator goes in New Jersey?
(a) WWII veterans.
(b) Marsha Bernstein's father.
(c) Camp counselors.
(d) Musicians.

5. Who are Evie and Lydia?
(a) Margaret's best friends.
(b) Margaret's sisters.
(c) Margaret's daughters.
(d) Margaret's granddaughters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator of Lawns go to college?

2. Where does the narrator of Lawns work?

3. What did Aunt Granny Lith ask Casey to do?

4. Who is Buck in Cody's Story?

5. In the story Home, why does the narrator come home to live with her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Connie's mother treat her?

2. Where is the priest going at the end of Departures, and where has he been? How is he traveling?

3. What questions does Danica ask Jane's father near the end of the train trip, and how does he respond?

4. How do the boys in Murderers get caught on their misadventure, and what happens to them?

5. In the story Home, what does the narrator's mother say to her to convince the narrator to move in with her for awhile? What help does she offer her daughter in the move?

6. Who is Vopotik in the story Helping?

7. What does G.R. ask Cody after he hears Cody's story of his near accident off the mountain that day?

8. In the story Dog Heaven, who is Sparky Smith and what game does he and the narrator play together?

9. In the story Daddy Garbage, how does Strayhorn discover the baby in the box?

10. In Moonwalk, who is Margaret Many Wounds and what is happening to her as the story opens? Who is taking care of her?

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