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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. Where do the narrator and Syd decide to ride out the storm in "I Stay with Syd"?
(a) Pizza place.
(b) Basement.
(c) Movie theatre.
(d) Boat house.

2. What does the narrator think that she will need to get through, in "Fort Bedd"?
(a) Candy.
(b) Books.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Trees.

3. In "The Chicane," Where was the narrator's Aunt Lauryn studying when she accompanied an actor on interviews?
(a) University in Madrid.
(b) University in Berlin.
(c) University in Paris.
(d) University in Hamburg.

4. When does a storm make landfall in "I Stay with Syd"?
(a) The night after Syd returns.
(b) 6 hours after Syd returns.
(c) 18 hours after Syd returns.
(d) 2 days after Syd returns.

5. What can the narrator of "I Stay with Syd" smell as she and Syd wait to go back inside the theater?
(a) Popcorn.
(b) Fertilizer.
(c) Sewage plant.
(d) Oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator want to get a tree in "Fort Bedd"?

2. Where does Mrs. Greed travel?

3. What do the narrator and others put on the pillows of the death-row dogs in "A Full Service Shelter"?

4. How long has Mrs. Greed been married?

5. In "I Stay with Syd," where did the married man invite the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Greed remind the narrator's husband of?

2. How does the narrator treat the death-row dogs?

3. How do the narrator and other volunteers handle injuries they receive from handling the dogs?

4. How does Mrs. Greed get to and from the narrator's husband's house?

5. At the beginning of "I Stay with Syd," what does the narrator say about Syd's married man?

6. In "The Chicane," what does the narrator say about going to a film?

7. How does the narrator spy on her husband and Mrs. Greed?

8. How does a man use a dead lamb to save an orphan lamb?

9. What does the narrator say about cleaning cages?

10. In "Sing to It," what does the man want and what does he get?

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