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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Thomas?
(a) Thirty-five years old.
(b) Thirty years old.
(c) Twenty years old.
(d) Twenty-five years old.

2. What does Mrs. Greenleaf do with the articles she cuts out from the newspaper?
(a) She buries them in the woods.
(b) She irons them and places them in a bureau drawer.
(c) She puts them in a scrapbook binder.
(d) She burns them in the fireplace.

3. What is Asbury convinced of?
(a) That he is dying.
(b) That his mother is dying.
(c) That he is a genius.
(d) That his sister is evil.

4. How does the girl in “The Comforts of Home” treat Thomas?
(a) She ignores him.
(b) She follows him around.
(c) She dotes on him.
(d) She mocks him.

5. What does Parker have all over the front of his body?
(a) Tattoos.
(b) Hair.
(c) A burn.
(d) A rash.

6. How old is Mr. Head?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 80.
(d) 60.

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

8. How old is the grandfather in “A View of the Woods”?
(a) 43 years old.
(b) 50 years old.
(c) 55 years old.
(d) 79 years old.

9. Where does Calhoun find them when he arrives to visit someone in “The Partridge Festival”?
(a) Cooking dinner.
(b) Sitting on the front porch.
(c) Bathing at the river.
(d) Grocery shopping.

10. Who does Thomas’s mother help?
(a) A girl who was thrown in jail for bouncing a check.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Her neighbors who are ill with influenza.
(d) The church people.

11. What happens to the girl in the waiting room in “Revelation”?
(a) She has a seizure and is taken away in an ambulance.
(b) Nothing, she sits back down.
(c) She’s escorted away by the police.
(d) She runs away.

12. Who does Thomas accidentally shoot?
(a) Himself.
(b) His mother.
(c) The sheriff.
(d) The girl.

13. Who does Mrs. Hopewell live with?
(a) No one, she lives alone.
(b) Her granddaughter, Emma.
(c) Her 32-year-old daughter, Joy.
(d) Her 18-year-old son, Nelson.

14. Where do the two fourteen year-old girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” attend school?
(a) The local public school.
(b) In Mobile.
(c) They no longer attend school.
(d) The local Catholic convent.

15. What is wrong with Julian’s mother?
(a) She can no longer walk.
(b) She is distraught that her son doesn’t live with her.
(c) She has cancer.
(d) She has dementia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mr. Head and the family member he lives with going?

2. Who does Mrs. McIntyre decide to fire?

3. How many children do Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf have?

4. What does Julian’s mother wear on the bus?

5. Who are Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf?

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