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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. How many soldiers are in the story "Today is Friday"?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

2. In "Now I Lay Me," what is the specific item Nick remembers, which belonged to his parents?
(a) A dried bouquet of wedding flowers.
(b) Their wedding china.
(c) Their wedding rings.
(d) Their wedding cake tin.

3. What is the name of the wine seller in "Today Is Friday"?
(a) George.
(b) Frank.
(c) Nick.
(d) Manuel.

4. In the story "An Alpine Idyll," what does John do at the table, while they are sitting in the inn?
(a) Says he has a headache.
(b) Starts sneezing.
(c) Falls asleep.
(d) Falls off his chair.

5. According to the American woman in "A Canary For One," who makes the best husbands?
(a) Italians.
(b) Spanish.
(c) English.
(d) Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the two men in "An Alpine Idyll" see when they come up the road?

2. Why does the male narrator think that the American woman assumes he is English in "A Canary For One"?

3. What is William still doing at the end of "A Pursuit Race"?

4. In "Banal Story," how old is the girl Nancy Hawthorne to which the narrator references?

5. Who is the narrator of this story "A Canary For One"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the reason that the peasant needed to store his wife’s body until the weather changed in "An Alpine Idyll"?

2. Why are some of the bullfighters relieved when Manuel dies in "Banal Story"?

3. How would you describe the American woman traveling with a canary in "A Canary For One"?

4. How does Nick respond when he hears about Prudence Mitchelle and Frank Washburn in "Ten Indians"?

5. Why do the innkeeper and the sexton call the peasant a beast in "An Alpine Idyll"?

6. Why does the third soldier in "Today is Friday" not want to drink with the others?

7. What does Mrs. Garner tell Nick, to make him feel better in "Ten Indians"?

8. In "Now I Lay Me," how does Nick think that John would react if he saw him after he had been released from the hospital?

9. How does the woman’s daughter in "A Canary For One" react when she is taken away from her foreign lover?

10. How does the author describe a pursuit race?

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