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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard Pine do after he breaks his ankle?
(a) Uses heroin and becomes addicted.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Amputates his foot and eats it.
(d) Amputates everything below his groin and eats it.

2. Who follows Rocky and Leo as they leave the garage?
(a) Bobby.
(b) A cop.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) The milkman.

3. Why can't George invoke the name given to him by Aunt Flo?
(a) He forgets the name.
(b) Gramma has him by the throat.
(c) He has lost his voice.
(d) He has a piece of food wedged in his windpipe.

4. In "For Owen," what is the name of the street passed while walking to school?
(a) Tomato.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Aloe.
(d) Cypress.

5. Whom does the narrator kill while with Nona?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) The driver who picked them up.
(c) A cop.
(d) A good Samaritan.

6. As Bobby is looking over the car, what thought distracts him?
(a) His wife is waiting with supper.
(b) Rocky is not really his friend.
(c) He does not like Leo in the least.
(d) The milkman left a spider at his door.

7. Why is George left home alone to watch Gramma?
(a) The nurse was sick.
(b) His brother injured his leg.
(c) His mother had to go grocery shopping.
(d) The story does not explain.

8. Whose name does Aunt Flo tell George to invoke?
(a) Beelzebub's.
(b) Jesus's.
(c) God's.
(d) Hastur's.

9. How did Henry win the poker game?
(a) Bluffing.
(b) Cheating.
(c) He had a partner placed strategically in the room.
(d) He seemed to know the cards before they were drawn.

10. Where is the narrator in "Nona" sitting as he considers events in his life?
(a) In his masion.
(b) At home with his wife and two children.
(c) In a spaceship.
(d) In a jail cell.

11. What realization does Rocky make as he and Leo are on a drunken joyride?
(a) His inspection sticker is about to expire.
(b) His wife has moved out of state.
(c) Leo is a jerk.
(d) There is someone following them.

12. What is the implication for George at the end of "Gramma"?
(a) George has killed Gramma and must confess.
(b) George is going to get a beating from his mother.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Gramma has taken over George's body.

13. Richard Pine's story details the accounts of whom?
(a) An embezzling real estate manager.
(b) A common handyman.
(c) A survivor of WWII.
(d) A disgraced surgeon.

14. What is the reason for the party in "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet"?
(a) It is a social mixer for those new to the area.
(b) A birthday.
(c) An anniversary.
(d) The publication of a young writer's first story.

15. Why did Rocky do what he did that landed him in jail?
(a) His wife was having an affair with his best friend.
(b) His wife made him angry and he tried to run her over with his car.
(c) His wife was pregnant by the milkman.
(d) His wife was unhappy with how poor they were.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Spike?

2. What is Thorpe's story about?

3. What is the name of the fiction editor for Logan's magazine?

4. What kind of problem did Henry admit he had that contributed to his scheme against Thorpe?

5. What does Carlin say that Spangler is seeing when Spangler becomes enraged about masking tape on the mirror?

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