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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. What Neil Young song does Georgie sing as he preps Mr. Weber?
2. What do Robert and the husband end up doing at the end of the television show?
3. What two children are left at the school house with the teacher during the blizzard?
4. What did Louise sneak out of the kitchen when she was a young child?
5. In the story Emergency, how long has the narrator been working in the emergency room when his story begins?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Quadberry get the scar over his right eye?
2. In the story Cathedral, who is Robert and how does he enter the story?
3. In the story Wickedness, what happens in Nebraska on the twelfth of January, 1888? How does this affect the townspeople?
4. Who does the mother in the story The First Day ask the woman at Walker Jones School and why?
5. In Carol Bly's story "Talk of Heroes," who is Willi Varig?
6. In the story The First Day, where are the mother and child going at the opening of the story? Why is this an important day?
7. How does Dzia-Dzia describe Chopin's death?
8. In the story Minor Heroism, who is Bryan, and what about him bothers his father?
9. Who are the main characters in River of Names, and how are they different from each other?
10. In the story The Fat Girl,When Louise examines herself in a mirror, what parts of her body does she like? What parts does she hate?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the use of metaphors in the story Men Under Water. How do they reflect the relationship between the narrator and Gunther?
Essay Topic 2
Susan Power entitled her story about Margaret Many Wounds' death Moonwalk. Why did she use this title? How does the title mean more than one thing in the context of the story?
Essay Topic 3
In the story Lawn, the narrator steals from the mail room of her dormitory. In her life, she has had a great deal stolen from her. Discuss what the narrator steals and why, and then what has been stolen from her and why. Can she ever be compensated for what has been stolen from her? Why or why not?
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