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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 Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, why does the Colonel buy Mrs. Bixby the coat?

2. What kind of car does The Visitor have?

3. To whom does Albert feed royal jelly?

4. What does Klara name her baby in Genesis and Catastrophe?

5. In The Great Automatic Grammatizator, what does Adolphe pay writers to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Visitor, what horrible discovery does Cornelius make the morning after his love affair?

2. How does William from Dip in the Pool die?

3. In William and Mary, what does William do to preserve himself when he knows he is dying?

4. In My Lady Love, My Dove, how does Pamela overhear some bad statements about herself?

5. In Parson's Pleasure, why does Boggis do his business with country folk?

6. Where does Lady Turton in Neck get stuck, and how does she get free?

7. What is Pig curious about when he first eats meat?

8. What does The Great Automatic Grammatizator do?

9. In Lamb to the Slaughter, why does Mary kill her husband?

10. In The Visitor, what does Cornelius think about the entire time he was eating dinner at the Egyptian's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did religion filter into some of these stories, and what did it symbolize in these different appearances?

Essay Topic 2

What was one theme you found throughout a number of these stories, and how was is presented?

Essay Topic 3

The pursuit of happiness was a common theme found in these stories. What stories embodied this theme, and how did that pursuit affect the characters involved?

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