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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper does Bill read every night in “The Ocean”?
(a) The Sun-Democrat
(b) The New York Times
(c) The Chicago Tribune
(d) The Democrat-Gazette

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

3. Where did Ruby meet the man she’s dating in “Third Monday”?
(a) Kroger's
(b) J. C. Penney's
(c) K-Mart
(d) The fairgrounds

4. What band does the narrator say Georgeann put on to try to teach Shelby to dance prior to the prom in “The Retreat”?
(a) The Beatles
(b) The Doors
(c) The Kinks
(d) The Who

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

6. The narrator of “Residents and Transients” says that “there are a few here who think” what place “in Louisville would be the grandest place in the world to be”?
(a) Waverly Hills
(b) Churchill Downs
(c) The Louisville Zoo
(d) The Louisville Slugger Museum

7. What old friend from graduate school does Nancy tell “Insulation is [Jack’s] hobby” in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) Kent Ballard
(b) Bill Crittendon
(c) Tom Green
(d) Bob Turnbow

8. Who does Imogene say “had a hurtin’ like this and come to find out she had kidney disease” in “The Ocean”?
(a) Mary
(b) Carolyn
(c) Gladys
(d) Dolores

9. What is the name of the man that Ruby is seeing in “Third Monday”?
(a) Buddy
(b) Paul
(c) Mark
(d) Jack

10. What surgery has Ruby recently had in “Third Monday”?
(a) A tonsillectomy
(b) A double mastectomy
(c) A hip replacement
(d) A hysterectomy

11. The man that got Linda pregnant had promised to get her what, in “Third Monday”?
(a) A round-trip cruise to Alaska
(b) A bookstore
(c) A laundromat franchise
(d) A trip to Bermuda

12. Nancy and Jack have been married almost how long in “Lying Doggo”?
(a) 10 years
(b) 12 years
(c) 15 years
(d) 20 years

13. Shelby tells Georgeann in “The Retreat,” “You’ve been looking peaked lately. I believe you’ve got” what?
(a) Low blood
(b) Head problems
(c) High blood pressure
(d) Arthritis

14. Who does Sabrina think Edwin looks like in “A New-Wave Format”?
(a) Kirk Douglas
(b) John Travolta
(c) Kevin Spacey
(d) James Dean

15. In what year did Nancy get married in “Nancy Culpepper”?
(a) 1981
(b) 1967
(c) 1977
(d) 1949

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Nancy’s son Robert in “Nancy Culpepper”?

3. Joe has an antique walking stick that belonged to whom in “Graveyard Day”?

4. What is the last name of Joe, who comes to supper almost every night at Waldeen’s, in “Graveyard Day”?

5. The narrator states in “The Retreat” that when Georgeann married Shelby, her mother warned her about the disadvantages of marrying what?

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