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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the man in "Get a Seeing Eye Dog" ask his wife to do something?
(a) He is dying.
(b) He does not love her.
(c) He is blind.
(d) She knows she loves someone else.

2. What do Harry and Wesley sell?
(a) Illegal liquor.
(b) Electronics.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Secrets.

3. What is Stevie's last name?
(a) Wheeler.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Jones.

4. How long has the matador's mother been buried?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 5 weeks.

5. Who pays the matador's bills while he is out of the country?
(a) His wife.
(b) The narrator.
(c) His tenants.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Fontans make in secret?

2. What does the bull refuse to do?

3. Where are the soldiers hiding in "Under the Ridge"?

4. What does Nick say is very important for a son to do in "Fathers and Sons"?

5. What does the British man in "Landscape with Figures" do against protest from the others?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the woman writing to the medical column about in "One Reader Writes"?

2. How does the narrator of "A Natural History of the Dead" wish to present his information about death?

3. What is Nick good at doing with women?

4. Why does the boy in "A Day's Wait" think he is going to die, and how is he calmed down?

5. What does Jimmy do while his father is still sleeping in "The Porter"?

6. How does Mr. Wheeler keep contact with his son, and how do Stevie's doctor's feel about his progress in the mental institution?

7. What does the good lion do when he is mocked for his strange eating habits?

8. Why does the man in "Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog" ask his wife to leave him?

9. What happens when Mr. Harris is eating at a train station restaurant?

10. What happens to the faithful bull when he is set out to breed?

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