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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Comforts of Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Shortley?
(a) The farm owner.
(b) The wife of the hired hand.
(c) A widow.
(d) The displaced person.

2. What room does the girl in “The Comforts of Home” stay in?
(a) The guest room.
(b) Thomas’s mother’s room.
(c) The living room.
(d) Thomas’s room.

3. What is the girl’s real name in “The Comforts of Home”?
(a) Raylee Jones.
(b) Star Drake.
(c) Ruth Hampton.
(d) Sarah Hamm.

4. What happens to the farm at the end of ”The Displaced Person”?
(a) Mr. Shortley is the new owner.
(b) It burns down.
(c) An auctioneer auctions it off.
(d) Nothing, the farm continues as usual.

5. What does Hazel Weaver want from Enoch Emery?
(a) The address of the red-haired girl and the blind man.
(b) An ice cream soda.
(c) To stop spying on the sunbathing women.
(d) Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does “The Heart of the Park” take place?

2. Who does Thomas live with?

3. Who steps out of the black car in “The Displaced Person”?

4. What does Thomas hide in the guest room in the hopes that the girl will find it?

5. Who believes that Thomas and the girl were scheming all along to kill his mother?

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