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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Almeda portrayed in the story?
(a) A vivacious young woman.
(b) A blushing bride.
(c) A sickly girl.
(d) A dour spinster.

2. What is unique about Queen Aggie?
(a) She is always drunk.
(b) She can speak ten languages.
(c) She has a white streak on the front of her hair.
(d) She can put her legs behind her head.

3. How can Jarvis Poulter's lifestyle be characterized?
(a) Eclectic.
(b) Primitive.
(c) Completely masculine.
(d) Cultured.

4. What was the nature of Almeda's father's business?
(a) Dry goods.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Harnesses.
(d) Law.

5. Jarvis had come to town to make a fortune in ___________.
(a) Coal.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Oil.
(d) Manufacturing.

6. What is the undesirable part of town called?
(a) Pearl Street swamp.
(b) Finneytown.
(c) Skid Row.
(d) Harlem.

7. What is Almeda's social status in town?
(a) Upper class.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Lower class.
(d) Middle class.

8. MENESETEUNG is the story of a __________________.
(a) Nurse.
(b) Frontierswoman.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Queen.

9. Almeda thinks that married women have to _____________________.
(a) Give up careers.
(b) Mold their husbands.
(c) Clean too much.
(d) Deal with in-laws.

10. How do the boys in town move Queen Aggie from place to place?
(a) In a car.
(b) In a wheelbarrow.
(c) In a wagon.
(d) On a horse.

11. With what does each of the sections begin?
(a) A few lines from Whitman.
(b) A few lines from Shakespeare.
(c) A few lines from Thoreau.
(d) A few lines written by the protagonist.

12. Who is the author of MENESETEUNG?
(a) Alice Monrovia.
(b) Allison Munro.
(c) Alice Munro.
(d) Alicia Monroe.

13. Which of the following does Almeda not prefer to do?
(a) Study.
(b) Cook.
(c) Write poetry.
(d) Read.

14. What is the source of Almeda's social withdrawal?
(a) Her facial scars.
(b) The death of her family members.
(c) Her limp.
(d) Her speech impediment.

15. Which of the following does not describe the picture of Almeda in the book?
(a) Rather plain.
(b) Vibrant.
(c) Gray hair.
(d) Only 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the narrator not mention as inhabiting the town?

2. Which of the following does not describe Almeda?

3. According to Almeda, marriage would mean __________________ existence.

4. How does the author show Almeda's naivete about the life of the lower class people in town?

5. What does Jarvis do with Almeda on Sundays?

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