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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 has Mrs. Weidenbach won the blue ribbon for at the county fair every year?
2. What railroad do Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel take when they go to visit their Grandmother?
3. How does Grandma Dowdel describe Shotgun Cheatham when Mary Alice asks her who he was in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
4. Where does Grandma Dowdel assert Jesse and Frank James are from in "Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground"?
5. What does Grandma Dowdel tell the milk delivery boy she did with the milk that had a mouse in it, in "The Mouse in the Milk"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Joey's perceptions of the biplane and pilot in "The Day of Judgment"?
2. What information do Mary Alice and Joey learn about Grandma's past from Aunt Puss Chapman?
3. What items do Mary Alice and Joey Dowdel bring with them on their trip to Grandma's in "The Mouse in the Milk"? Why?
4. What happens just before the tasting at the cooking contest in "The Day of Judgment"?
5. What story does Grandma Dowdel give to the city reporter about Shotgun Cheatham? Why?
6. How does Grandma Dowdel overcome her adversaries at the end of “A One Woman Crime Wave"?
7. How do Joey and Mary Alice feel about their trip to Grandma Dowdel's in the beginning of "The Day of Judgment"?
8. How does Grandma Dowdel describe "the truth" of Shotgun Cheatham and how he got his name?
9. What does Joey ask Grandma Dowdel in the end of "The Day of Judgment"? What is her reply?
10. What does Grandma Dowdel coerce Mr. Cowgill to do to his sons in the end of "The Mouse in the Milk"? How does she coerce him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the character of Effie Wilcox in A Long Way from Chicago. How old is Mrs. Wilcox? What is Mrs. Wilcox's relationship like with Grandma Dowdel? How does their relationship change in the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the setting of “A One Woman Crime Wave." How has the atmosphere of the country changed since Mary Alice and Joey's earlier visits to Grandma? How has Grandma's house changed? How is the setting of this story related to its plot and themes?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the symbolism and imagery in "The Troop Train." What does Joey anticipate and what does he witness when he passes through Grandma Dowdel's town? What is symbolized by this imagery? What does it mean to Joey?
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