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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. Who is the person that the boys of the town constantly harass?
(a) Jane.
(b) Mr. Booker.
(c) Queen Aggie.
(d) Almeda.

2. How does the author show Almeda's naivete about the life of the lower class people in town?
(a) She never goes outside or talks to anyone.
(b) She thinks the swamp is beautiful.
(c) She always gives to charities.
(d) She does not give to charities.

3. What is the title of one of Almeda's poems?
(a) Champagne Bubbles Tickle My Mouth.
(b) Champlain at the Mouth of the Meneseteung.
(c) Complaints from the Mouth of Meneseteung.
(d) Drinking Champagne on the Meneseteung.

4. Almeda's lifestyle could be characterized as _______________.
(a) Outcast.
(b) Bohemian.
(c) Privileged.
(d) Neglected.

5. Almeda keeps her distance both physically and _______________ in town.
(a) Politically.
(b) Financially.
(c) Mentally.
(d) Socially.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jarvis had come to town to make a fortune in ___________.

2. How can Jarvis Poulter's lifestyle be characterized?

3. In what year do the events of Section 2 occur?

4. Almeda thinks that married women have to _____________________.

5. What is the name of the local newspaper in town?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Almeda do as she sits in her dark house?

2. What is one of Almeda's most famous poems and what is the content?

3. What is the narrator's opinion on the individual when recounting history?

4. Whose death also occurs close to Almeda's?

5. What is distinctive about the protagonist?

6. What has happened to the grape juice project Almeda had started yesterday?

7. The narrator provides information about Almeda's life in what year in Section 2?

8. Why is the town populated with relatively young people under the age of 50?

9. What does Almeda think about in her delirious state?

10. What are the narrator's feelings about people's lack of curiosity regarding other people?

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