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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the story Rock Springs, what animal does Edna win in a bet?
2. Where does Hattie Benedict and the two children find shelter during the blizzard?
3. In Talk of Heroes, Who is Willi Varig?
4. In Rock Springs, what is the narrator's daughter's name?
5. Where are the narrator and his passengers going in the story Rock Springs?
Short Essay Questions
1. In The Fat Girl, what is the secret that follows Louise from high school to college?
2. In the story A Romantic Weekend, where are Beth and her companion going for their romantic weekend, and how does the narrator describe the apartment?
3. Who does the mother in the story The First Day ask the woman at Walker Jones School and why?
4. Who are the main characters in River of Names, and how are they different from each other?
5. What memory does Bryan relate in the third part of the story Minor Heroism?
6. In the story Minor Heroism, who is Bryan, and what about him bothers his father?
7. What picture do the narrator of Catherdraland Robert draw and why?
8. In the story Emergency, who is Terrence Weber? What unusual thing has happened to him?
9. Where do the narrator of Emergency and his friend Georgie work and for how long? What do they do there?
10. Who is speaking in Girl, and to who is she directing her instructions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Cathedral, the husband and Robert are very different people. Robert is blind and the husband is not, but that is not the most important different between them. How do these characters exchange sight in the evening they spend together? How does the evening change both men?
Essay Topic 2
Alcohol is a theme in some of the stories in this collection. Compare the drinking and the effect drinking has on these characters and their close relationships: Walter in All The Way To Flagstaff, Arizona; Willi Vorig in Talk of Heroes, and Lenny in Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta.
Essay Topic 3
In his story The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien differentials between the physical things the soldiers carried on their backs and those they carry in their hearts and minds. Contrast and compare the physical and emotional things the men carried and how each affect a soldier.
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