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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. 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 Sash thinks of as his own son.
(d) A boy that Sally has arranged to wheel General Sash to the stage.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?

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

4. What is Old Gabriel afraid of?

5. What does Ruller hike back to his town with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is Hazel Motes reluctant to befriend Enoch Emery?

6. Why does Hazel Wickers keep thinking about his mother?

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

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

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

10. Why does Ruby dread Rufus’s arrival?

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