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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Edwin’s first wife in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) Mary
(b) Dolores
(c) Lois Ann
(d) Georgeann

2. What did the man Ruby’s dating try to sell her when they first met in “Third Monday”?
(a) A stuffed animal
(b) A ring
(c) A coffee table
(d) A hunting dog

3. What kind of toothpaste does Sabrina use in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) Dr. Johnson's Tooth Rub
(b) Fennel
(c) Honey
(d) Garden Mint

4. When Georgeann began dating Shelby in high school, she was impressed that he had spent a month studying whose life in “The Retreat”?
(a) Abraham Lincoln's
(b) Winston Churchill's
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt's
(d) Theodore Roosevelt's

5. Where did Waldeen’s ex-husband move after their divorce in “Graveyard Day”?
(a) Arizona
(b) Texas
(c) Arkansas
(d) Oklahoma

6. According to the narrator in “The Ocean,” “Bill was an expert driver. He knew every road and cow path and Indian trail” where?
(a) West of the Mississippi
(b) East of the Mississippi
(c) In the Jackson Purchase
(d) In the Louisiana Purchase

7. Jack says in “Lying Doggo,” “The only people I ever cared about who died were” what?
(a) His parents
(b) Rock heroes
(c) His grandparents
(d) Old

8. What is the name of Holly’s father in “Graveyard Day”?
(a) Robert Cleveland
(b) Kent Ballard
(c) Jack Walters
(d) Joe Murdock

9. What is the name of Nancy’s husband in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) Jack
(b) Paul
(c) Peter
(d) Bill

10. Nancy and her husband live in a small town an hour’s drive from what city in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) New York
(b) Philadelphia
(c) Cleveland
(d) Boston

11. What kind of dog is Grover in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) Border Collie
(b) Malamute
(c) German Shepherd
(d) Great Dane

12. Of her parents’ farmhouse, the narrator of “Residents and Transients” says, “I love its stateliness, the way it rises up from the fields like a patch of” what?
(a) Mutant jimsonweeds
(b) Red apple trees
(c) Purple irises
(d) Daisies

13. Who has taken all the ribbons from the presents and fashioned them into a funny bridal bouquet at the party in “Third Monday”?
(a) Carolyn Sisson
(b) Nancy Featherstone
(c) Rita Jean Wiggins
(d) Jim Yates

14. Where did Jack get Grover in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) A small pet store
(b) From his dying mother
(c) A little kid outside Wal-Mart
(d) A Humane Society shelter

15. What is Edwin’s last name in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) Cleveland
(b) Creech
(c) Culpepper
(d) Jackson

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruby realizes in the hospital that she has about a hundred pictures of what actor, in “Third Monday"?

2. What freeway does Imogene ask directions to in Nashville in “The Ocean”?

3. How old is Robert in “Lying Doggo”?

4. What is the last name of Bill and Imogene in “The Ocean”?

5. Who does Imogene say “had a hurtin’ like this and come to find out she had kidney disease” in “The Ocean”?

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