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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. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?
(a) Stealing his customers.
(b) Being an unfit couple.
(c) Heckling him.
(d) Breaking the laws.

2. Who reappears in “The Heart of the Park”?
(a) Enoch Emery.
(b) Mrs. Willerton.
(c) Hazel Motes.
(d) Old Gabriel.

3. The barber calls Rayber what name __________.
(a) Segregationist.
(b) Mother Hubbard.
(c) White Supremacist.
(d) Idiot.

4. How old is Hazel Wickers?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Nineteen.

5. What is in Ruby’s sack?
(a) Shrimp and grits.
(b) Four cans of beans.
(c) Spinach.
(d) Her Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Enoch Emery borrow from his landlord?

2. Where is Hazel Wickers expecting to sleep on the train?

3. Whose perspective is “The Crop” told in?

4. What season is it in “The Heart of the Park”?

5. Where is Mr. Shiflit running to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rayber change barbers?

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

3. Why is it ironic that the young boy’s parents are going to the river to the baptisms in “The River”?

4. Why doesn’t the hitchhiker ride with Mr. Shiflet when he pulls over for him?

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

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

7. Why does Enoch steal the gorilla suit?

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

9. Why is Ruller afraid something bad is about to happen?

10. What does Old Dudley think about New York?

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