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

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

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

4. What do Margaret's family members learn about Dr. Sakuma?
(a) He was the man who named her Many Wounds.
(b) He was her grandfather, a white man.
(c) He was the father of her children.
(d) He was the teacher who inspired her to learn.

5. In Dog Heaven, what is "Fact Monday"?
(a) The day on which the teacher taught on a specific topic.
(b) The day on which the teacher showed a movie about state history.
(c) The day on which students were tested on math facts.
(d) The day on which students were tested on spelling words.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Murderers, who runs the camp to which the narrator goes in New Jersey?

2. In Lawns, what room has the narrator reserved at the hotel?

3. Who is Danica writing a postcard to about which that Jane criticizes her?

4. What does the narrator of Men Under Water do for a living?

5. How old is the priest in Departures when he goes by train to his family's home after six years away?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does Connie's mother treat her?

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

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

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

7. Where are the soldiers stationed in The Things They Carried, and who are the main characters?

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

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

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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