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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 Matilda's mother reject Morris' offer to take Matilda to the school dance?
(a) He is too young to escort Matilda.
(b) The family is not that desperate.
(c) He is shorter than Matilda.
(d) Matilda has a date for the dance.

2. What name had Matilda's mother once called Morris?
(a) Deadeye Dick.
(b) Glass Eye Gary.
(c) One-eyed Wonder.
(d) Pop Bottle Eyes.

3. Who is Morris' bookkeeper?
(a) Linda.
(b) Ruth Ann.
(c) Suzanne.
(d) Darla.

4. Who is Matilda?
(a) Joan's aunt.
(b) Joan's best friend.
(c) A beautiful girl in town.
(d) Morris' girlfriend.

5. How did Austin die?
(a) Terminal illness.
(b) In a boating accident.
(c) In a car accident.
(d) A gunshot wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did the husband of the woman in #166 have?

2. What is the setting of "Goodness and Mercy"?

3. What does Anita say to Reuel when she wants to get something out of him after the divorce?

4. What is Joan's last name?

5. What is Joan's hometown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Anita learn about Margot when her mother visited her in the hospital after her appendix surgery?

2. Why has Anita come to her hometown and what does she recall about her childhood and about stopping for coffee with her friend, Margot, on their way to school?

3. What story does the captain tell about two sister who once traveled on the ship?

4. Who is Matilda and what are the circumstances in which her mother is cruel to Morris?

5. Who is Austin Cobbett and what is a woman named Karin helping him do as the story begins?

6. What was the source of the falling out between Georgia and Maya, causing them to never speak again?

7. How did Margot get even with Reuel after his affair with their babysitter and manage to get all the things she had ever wanted in life?

8. Why would Austin have had good reasons--in his mind--to have committed suicide?

9. Who are June (Bugs) and Averill and what are they doing as the story begins?

10. What is the symbolism of the red stained glass through which Joan views the world?

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