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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 Evie envy about Lydia?
(a) Her abilities and her husband.
(b) Her beauty and placid nature.
(c) Her good looks and wealth.
(d) Her beauty and her husband.

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

3. What lie does Blankenship tell everyone?
(a) He is Einstein's great grandson.
(b) He is a Vietnam veteran.
(c) He is an idiot savant.
(d) He is a published author.

4. Who is Daddy Garbage?
(a) The main character of the story.
(b) A dog.
(c) A horse.
(d) An old man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his men do after Lavender is taken away by the chopper?

2. In the story Dog Heaven, what game does the narrator play with Sparky Smith?

3. Where is Elliot's office?

4. What does the narrator of the story Home do for a living while she is living with her mother?

5. Who are Evie and Lydia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before she dies, what story does Margaret tell Evie and Lydia that change their lives?

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

3. In the story Rules of the Game, who is Lau Fo?

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

5. What secret does the narrator of Lawns finally reveal to her boyfriend and her mother? How do they react?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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