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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. Which of the following is NOT how the narrator thinks about Flora?
(a) Generous.
(b) Prudish.
(c) Self-righteous.
(d) Busybody.

2. Which of the following has NOT prompted Jarvis to want to propose marriage to Almeda?
(a) Seeing her in an agitated state.
(b) Seeing her balancing her check book.
(c) Seeing her in her nightdress.
(d) Seeing her hair in disarray.

3. Who does Almeda see slumped against her fence in the morning?
(a) A child.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A bum.
(d) A woman.

4. What is Neil's answer when Brenda asks him if he ever took money from the girl at the sweets shop?
(a) He says he did it once.
(b) He says she was not interested in him.
(c) He denies it.
(d) He says he did it all the time.

5. Who is the boyfriend of the woman in #59?
(a) Dudley Brown.
(b) Donald Bryson.
(c) Douglas Bowen.
(d) Dennis Buell.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Almeda let Jarvis know that she won't be going to church today?

2. Who rescued the man in #79 when he was shot down over France?

3. Which of the following sounds does Almeda NOT hear when she is awakened one night?

4. Hazel decides to travel to a town in which country?

5. Why do Murray and his wife drive to see a doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the possible lies in the story?

2. What is the premise of "Five Points"?

3. What was the relationship between the narrator's mother, and Flora after the narrator's mother moved away to marry and start a family?

4. What is life like for women in Almeda's town?

5. When does it occur to Hazel that Dudley is involved with both Judy and Antoinette?

6. What are Brenda's conflicting feelings about the fight with Neil?

7. What is the content of a poem told by Miss Dobie that seems to be directed at Judy?

8. How did Flora try to mend the relationship with the narrator's mother, and what does the narrator think about how well she knew her own mother?

9. What does the fight between Brenda and Neil signify?

10. What role does Murray's paranoia play in the story?

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