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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. Where does Emery go for something to eat in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?
(a) To his apartment.
(b) To the grocer.
(c) The churro cart.
(d) The Paris Diner.

2. Ruby’s physical shape is compared to a ________?
(a) Reed.
(b) Hog.
(c) Raisin.
(d) Funeral urn.

3. What does Emery order at the diner in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?
(a) Pork chops.
(b) Coffee and pie.
(c) Chicken-fried steak.
(d) A piece of cake.

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

5. Who is Madam Zoleeda?
(a) Ruby's best friend.
(b) The woman who owns the local saloon.
(c) The palmist on highway 87.
(d) Rufus’s prostitute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sally want her grandfather to attend?

2. How many customers are in the diner in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?

3. In “The River”, why do the characters head down to the river?

4. What animal comes to Old Gabriel’s cabin?

5. Who takes the turkey from Ruller?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rayber’s old barber call him a “mother hubbard”?

2. What happens at the end of “A Circle in the Fire”?

3. What is Old Gabriel afraid of besides the wildcat?

4. How does Mr. Shiflet convince the widow of his sincerity?

5. What does Old Dudley think about New York?

6. Though General Sash does not want to go to his granddaughter’s graduation, why does he agree to anyhow?

7. Why does Rayber change barbers?

8. How is the General dying at the commencement a form of irony?

9. What does Mrs. Willerton wish that she had more time for?

10. Why doesn’t Hazel Wickers believe that the porter’s father was a railroad engineer?

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