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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the grandmother have hiding under the newspaper in the backseat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Her cat.
(c) A flask.
(d) Her rosary beads.

2. What happens to General Sash during the ceremony?
(a) He walks onstage.
(b) He cries.
(c) He dies.
(d) He refuses to go.

3. Who asked Old Dudley if he wanted to go for a walk?
(a) His friend.
(b) His wife.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His brother.

4. What is Ruller pretending to be?
(a) A Wild West cowboy.
(b) A robot.
(c) An Indian.
(d) A hunter.

5. What does Mrs. Willerton consider herself?
(a) A poet.
(b) A musician.
(c) An artist.
(d) A writer.

6. What animal comes to Old Gabriel’s cabin?
(a) A house cat.
(b) A wildcat.
(c) A cow.
(d) A stray dog.

7. What war did General Sash serve in?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) The Great War.
(c) The War Between the States.
(d) The Vietnam War.

8. Who helps Old Dudley up the stairs?
(a) The taxi driver.
(b) The apartment concierge.
(c) The black man who is renting the apartment next to Old Dudley’s.
(d) His daughter when she returns home from work.

9. How many children are traveling with the grandmother and her son in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

10. What do the boys do in the woods behind the farm in “A Circle in the Fire”?
(a) Dig a hole.
(b) Kills farm animals.
(c) Run away.
(d) Swim in the water tank and then start a fire.

11. Who is Mrs. Cope?
(a) The owner of the farm.
(b) The neighbor.
(c) The grandmother of the farm owner.
(d) The hired-hand’s wife.

12. Who is John Wesley?
(a) A boy that Sash thinks of as his own son.
(b) A boy that Sally has arranged to wheel General Sash to the stage.
(c) Sally’s brother who no longer speaks to General Sash.
(d) Sally’s son who is graduating from college.

13. Who does Hazel Motes follow down the street?
(a) His father.
(b) The baker.
(c) The red-haired girl and the blind man.
(d) Enoch Emery.

14. Who takes the turkey from Ruller?
(a) The beggar man.
(b) A group of men.
(c) His mother.
(d) The beggar woman.

15. Who dose Hazel accompany to the dining car?
(a) A woman whom he has been flirting with.
(b) Mrs. Hosen.
(c) His mother.
(d) The porter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In “A Circle in the Fire,” who is always looking out from the upstairs window?

2. What is Old Gabriel afraid of?

3. How old is the boy in “The River”?

4. How old is General Sash?

5. How many children does the babysitter have in “The River”?

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