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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. In "An Unlucky Man," who drives the family to the hospital?
(a) The father.
(b) The brother.
(c) The sister.
(d) The mother.

2. In "Two Square Feet," when does service in the subway end?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 11.

3. In "Two Square Feet," what does the narrator think she needs to get back that is still in storage?
(a) Her boxes.
(b) Her fur coat.
(c) Her money.
(d) Her table.

4. In "Breath From the Depths," how does Lola's husband die?
(a) In a car accident in the street.
(b) Slowly in the hospital.
(c) In an accidental shooting.
(d) Suddenly, and in the house.

5. In "An Unlucky Man," what does the man warn the narrator not to do with him?
(a) Lead him on.
(b) Try to make him laugh.
(c) Get angry with him.
(d) Get persnickety.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Two Square Feet," how much money does the mother-in-law get at the pawn shop for her item?

2. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola tell Susana she can not lend her after all, towards the end of the story?

3. In "Two Square Feet," what does the man the narrator's mother-in-law runs into have drawn on his eyelids?

4. In "Breath From the Depths," where does Lola check to see if everything is in order after the boy has been there?

5. In "An Unlucky Man," what is the narrator wearing on her birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "An Unlucky Man," who does the narrator meet in the hospital waiting room?

2. What does one of Lola's notes to herself about her neighbor on her list say in In "Breath From the Depths"?

3. In "Breath From the Depths," what pantry object does Lola fixate on, and why?

4. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Susana finally tell Lola directly after Lola's husband dies?

5. In "An Unlucky Man," what happens the day the narrator turns eight?

6. In "Breath From the Depths," what does the reader eventually begin to understand more clearly about Lola as the story goes on?

7. In "Breath From the Depths," why does Susana, Lola's neighbor, tell Lola she is worried about her own son?

8. In "Breath From the Depths," who does Lola call when her husband collapses, and why?

9. In "An Unlucky Man," what does the narrator's father demand from the narrator?

10. In "Breath From the Depths," what does the boy next door once asks Lola desperately to do for him?

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