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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. Why did Lavinia's mother pull her kids from school?
(a) So they could work after their father died.
(b) Because she felt they were not treated fairly by their teachers.
(c) So they could work after their father quit his job.
(d) Because she wanted to home school them.

2. What was Mr. Zagrowsky's occupation before retirement in "Zagrowsky Tells"?
(a) Pharmacist.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Barber.

3. Why does the narrator question her husband's story about his lover, Dotty Wasserman?
(a) Dotty is a made up character from a book.
(b) She did not realize he and Dotty had ever met.
(c) Dotty has been married for years.
(d) Dotty died when she was young.

4. Who does Faith find has returned to her house when she comes back from Mrs. Luddy's?
(a) Richard.
(b) Jack.
(c) Ricardo.
(d) Anthony.

5. What does one neighbor tell the stranger about the young girls in "In the Garden"?
(a) They are better off without their mother.
(b) The girls are a figment of the woman's imagination.
(c) She thinks he kidnapped the girls.
(d) Their father was involved in the kidnapping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the speaker in "The Little Girl"?

2. What had happened to the young woman's daughters in "In the Garden"?

3. Why does the grandmother worry about Sonia?

4. What are Samuel and his friends doing at the start of "Samuel"?

5. Who does the narrator in "Love" read her love poem to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Faith's family react when she tells them of her stay with Mrs. Luddy in "The Long-Distance Runner"?

2. What does Jack say could happen if they have a baby as the narrator suggests in "The Story Hearer"?

3. Who is Sonia in "In This Country: But in Another Language..."? Why is the grandmother worried about ther?

4. What does the narrator in "Mother" long for?

5. Why is Lavinia's mother upset at the end of "Lavinia: An Old Story"?

6. Who is Philip In "Dreamer in A Dead Language"? Why does he want to meet Faith's father?

7. How did Cissy become pregnant with Emmanuel? Why does her father care for him?

8. What happens to Juniper in "Little Girl"?

9. What is Dotty Wasserman's role in the story "Love"?

10. Who is Mrs. Luddy and why does Faith stay in her apartment?

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