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

2. What can the boys in Murderers see from their perch on the water tank?
(a) The New Jersey Turnpike.
(b) The Miracle Mile.
(c) The Brooklyn Navy Yard.
(d) MIchigan Avenue.

3. In Rules of the Game, what magazine features an article about the narrator?
(a) Seventeen Magazine.
(b) Life Magazine.
(c) Time Magazine.
(d) Newsweek.

4. Why does Aunt Granny Lith haunt Casey in his marriage?
(a) She was his second wife.
(b) She was his first wife.
(c) Her daughter was Casey's first wife.
(d) When he was a child, he asked her to marry him.

5. How old is Connie's sister?
(a) Twenty seven.
(b) Twenty four.
(c) Twenty nine,
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator of Rules of the Game and her family live?

2. In Daddy Garbage, who is Lemuel Strayhorn?

3. In the story Murderers, what does Melvin Bloom tell the boys on the corner one summer afternoon?

4. Who is in the car with Arnold when he comes to Connie's house?

5. Who is Blankenship?

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. Who is the narrator of Lawns, and what is her crime?

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

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

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

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

7. Who does Strayhorn immediately find to help him figure out what to do with the dead baby and why?

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

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

10. Who is the main character of Departures? How old is he when the story opens? Where is he going?

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