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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. How many children does the babysitter have in “The River”?
(a) None.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. Whose perspective is “The Crop” told in?
(a) Lucia’s.
(b) Lot Motum’s.
(c) Mrs. Willteron’s.
(d) Garner’s.

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

4. What does the upper sleeping berth remind Hazel Wickers of?
(a) A coffin.
(b) His back porch.
(c) His mother’s chiffarobe.
(d) His bed.

5. What does the boy in “The River” say his name is (though it isn’t)?
(a) Raybar.
(b) Robbie.
(c) Enoch.
(d) Bevel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In “The Train”, what doesn’t the upper sleeping berth have?

3. Whom does Mrs. Willerton become in her own story?

4. What does Hazel Motes purchase from the baker?

5. What happens to General Sash during the ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Willerton feel about her daily life?

2. What is O’Connor’s message in “The River”?

3. Why is Ruller so proud to bring the turkey home to his family?

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

5. What dismays Ruby about Rufus choosing collard greens as his something “special” that she will make for him?

6. What does Enoch Emery’s daily routine consist of?

7. How do the boys invade the farm, despite the widow asking them to leave in “A Circle in the Fire”?

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

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

10. Why is the man in the gorilla suit irritated with Enoch?

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