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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Bryan tell his father to do with the picture he has drawn?
2. In the story The First Day, what time does the mother tell her daughter she will pick her up?
3. What does Lenny in Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta give the protagonist before he leaves?
4. Where does the narrator, Cheryl and Edna spend the night when their car breaks down?
5. What show does Robert and his hosts end up watching on television?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the story A Romantic Weekend, where are Beth and her companion going for their romantic weekend, and how does the narrator describe the apartment?
2. In Testimony of Pilot, how does Quadberry get the scar over his right eye?
3. In the story Emergency, who is Terrence Weber? What unusual thing has happened to him?
4. Why does Delores kill her husband Michael in Scott Bradfield's story "The Darling"?
5. In the story The First Day, where are the mother and child going at the opening of the story? Why is this an important day?
6. How does Dzia-Dzia describe Chopin's death?
7. In the story Cathedral, who is Robert and how does he enter the story?
8. What picture do the narrator of Catherdraland Robert draw and why?
9. Who does the mother in the story The First Day ask the woman at Walker Jones School and why?
10. In the story Wickedness, what happens in Nebraska on the twelfth of January, 1888? How does this affect the townspeople?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the story Dog Heaven, the author has created two children and a dog who live in a work of adults involved in the military. The narrator therefore focuses the story on the elements of childhood most recognized by people growing up. Discuss three of those elements and how they help the reader to relate to the story and to the narrator as a child.
Essay Topic 2
When Danica asks Mr. Muirhead, in the story Train, whether she and Jane will be friends forever, how does he respond? Why does he know these things about his daughter, and likewise know Danica is not like his daughter?
Essay Topic 3
In the story Lawn, the narrator steals from the mail room of her dormitory. In her life, she has had a great deal stolen from her. Discuss what the narrator steals and why, and then what has been stolen from her and why. Can she ever be compensated for what has been stolen from her? Why or why not?
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