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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator of the story Home go on Saturdays?
(a) The public library in the next town.
(b) The Veterans of Foreign Wars rummage sales.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) The movies.

2. Where does the narrator of Lawns go to college?
(a) Radcliffe.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Amherst.
(d) Oakland.

3. In Lawns, what room has the narrator reserved at the hotel?
(a) The Penthouse.
(b) The Bridal Suite.
(c) The Annex Room.
(d) The Washington Room.

4. Who gives birth at the end of Daddy Garbage?
(a) Abigail.
(b) Sandra.
(c) Lizabeth.
(d) Liza.

5. Who is Daddy Garbage?
(a) The main character of the story.
(b) An old man.
(c) A horse.
(d) A dog.

6. What did the narrator of Rules of the Game receive at the annual church Christmas party?
(a) A doll.
(b) A chess set.
(c) A box of Life Savers.
(d) A Bible.

7. Why do Gunther and the narrator show up at Otis and Luke's' house?
(a) To repair the three broken toilets.
(b) To repair the broken windows.
(c) To repair the broken stove.
(d) To repair the washing machine.

8. How old is Connie in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twenty.

9. What did Evie envy about Lydia?
(a) Her abilities and her husband.
(b) Her good looks and wealth.
(c) Her beauty and her husband.
(d) Her beauty and placid nature.

10. In The Things They Carried, how does Ted Lavendar die?
(a) He is shot in the back.
(b) He is hit by a grenade.
(c) He is shot in the head.
(d) He has a heart attack from fear.

11. How old is the priest in Departures when he goes by train to his family's home after six years away?
(a) Twenty five.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty one.
(d) Fifty five.

12. What color is Arnold's car?
(a) Gold.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) Red.

13. Who is Blankenship?
(a) A petty thief who seeks Elliot's help.
(b) A fellow scientist at the university.
(c) A psychiartist.
(d) A law partner.

14. What does the narrator of Men Under Water do for a living?
(a) He is an actor.
(b) He is a handyman and general helper.
(c) He is poet.
(d) He is an experienced playwriter.

15. What does the narrator of the story Home do for a living while she is living with her mother?
(a) She is a math tutor.
(b) She is a school counselor.
(c) She is a tutor for remedial reading students.
(d) She is a second grade teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story Murderers, what does Melvin Bloom tell the boys on the corner one summer afternoon?

2. What did Aunt Granny Lith ask Casey to do?

3. For the most part, what is one thing the narrator say determines what the soldiers carried with them?

4. Who is Danica writing a postcard to about which that Jane criticizes her?

5. In Rules of the Game, what magazine features an article about the narrator?

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