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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. In Daddy Garbage, who is Lemuel Strayhorn?
(a) A shoe salesman.
(b) An ice cream peddler.
(c) A snowball cart owner.
(d) A policeman.

2. Who does Connie meet in the drive-in restaurant at night?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Tommy.
(c) Danny.
(d) Roger.

3. What person do both the narrator and her mother of Home think about simultaneously?
(a) Jason.
(b) Richard.
(c) Robert.
(d) Simon.

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

5. In Cody's Story, who is Cody's partner?
(a) G.R. Trimble
(b) G.R. Tailer.
(c) G.R. Treshman.
(d) G.R. Thompson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Margaret's family members learn about Dr. Sakuma?

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

3. What did Evie envy about Lydia?

4. What can the boys in Murderers see from their perch on the water tank?

5. In the story Helping, who is Vopotik?

Short Essay Questions

1. What inspiration does Gunther in Men Under Water get about his next screenplay after visiting Acid Rain? Who does he find waiting for him at his home when he and the narrator pull up to his house?

2. How does Casey know Aunt Granny Lith, and what does he do when he sees her again?

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

4. How does Connie's mother treat her?

5. What news does the narrator receive about Sparky Smith shortly after her move from Fort Niagara?

6. Who is Vopotik in the story Helping?

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

8. In Rules of the Game, what is Meimei's mother's "chang"?

9. What are some of the superstitious things the soldiers carry with them, and what is the most unusual of them?

10. In the story Murderers, who do the young boys want to see when they climb up onto the water tower, and why?

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