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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 do Gunther and the narrator do in the back yard when the men have left?
(a) They go diving in the swimming pool.
(b) They make their plan for their movie.
(c) They take a nap in the sun.
(d) They drink until they pass out.

2. What does Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his men do after Lavender is taken away by the chopper?
(a) They recruit the men from Than Khe.
(b) They evacuate women and children from Than Khe.
(c) They leave Lavender's belongings in Than Khe.
(d) They burns down Than Khe.

3. Where does the narrator of Lawns go to college?
(a) Amherst.
(b) Radcliffe.
(c) Oakland.
(d) Berkeley.

4. Where does Margaret explain her grandmother's wedding dress is?
(a) The Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis.
(b) The St. Louis Art Museum.
(c) The Field Museum in Chicago.
(d) The Metropolitan Museum in New York.

5. How are the characters in Trains traveling to Florida?
(a) By bus.
(b) By train.
(c) By car.
(d) By boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Things They Carried, what are some of things the soldiers carry for personal use?

2. Who does the narrator meet observing a chess game in the park one afternoon in Rules of the Game?

3. What lie does Blankenship tell everyone?

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

5. Who does the narrator of Lawns fall in love with the second time she sees him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Connie's mother treat her?

2. In Cody's Story, who are Cody and G.R.? What do they do for a living and where?

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

4. In the short story Train, who are the two little girls on the train, how old are they, and where are they going?

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

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

7. In the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, who is Arnold French, and how does he strike up a conversation with Connie?

8. Why does Daniel not want the narrator of Home to see his back?

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

10. Who is Vopotik in the story Helping?

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