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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 A Romantic Weekend, where is the couple in the story going for the weekend?

2. In the story The First Day, what time does the mother tell her daughter she will pick her up?

3. Who does Louise marry when she is thin?

4. Who does Georgie pick up hitchhiking on the side of the road?

5. In The Darling, what is Dolores Starr's unusual occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the story Wickedness, what happens in Nebraska on the twelfth of January, 1888? How does this affect the townspeople?

2. In The Fat Girl, what is the secret that follows Louise from high school to college?

3. In Carol Bly's story "Talk of Heroes," who is Willi Varig?

4. In A Romantic Weekend, how long do Beth and her companion stay in Washington,D.C. and how do they return home? Why did they actually make the trip?

5. In the story Rock Springs, how do Edna, Cheryl and the narrator end up in Rock Springs?

6. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Quadberry get the scar over his right eye?

7. 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?

8. Why does Delores kill her husband Michael in Scott Bradfield's story "The Darling"?

9. Who is speaking in Girl, and to who is she directing her instructions?

10. In the story Cathedral, who is Robert and how does he enter the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

In the story Minor Heroism, from whose point of view is the story told? How is point of view, or voice, used to enrich the story? Discuss and use examples.

Essay Topic 3

In his Introduction, Tobias Wolff quotes Kafka as saying literature is like an axe with which to break "the frozen sea within us." What did Kafka mean by this? What two stories in the collection had this affect on you and why?

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