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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 long did Charles work for Johnson?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 13 years.
(d) 20 years.

2. What does Viola complain that Louis has done?
(a) Chosen the wrong restaurant.
(b) Gotten there before her.
(c) Shaved his beard.
(d) Changed the way his hair was cut.

3. What do Harold's children see that upsets them?
(a) Their father being taken away by the police.
(b) Watching him being picked on in the news.
(c) Their friends throwing stones at their father's stores.
(d) Realizing their father is a cheat

4. What do the people chant?
(a) Rise and celebrate.
(b) Overcome.
(c) No longer average.
(d) No more.

5. How do the other diners look at the people involved in the theft?
(a) As if they are entertainers.
(b) As if they cannot understand them.
(c) As if they want them to leave fast.
(d) As if they are crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Paul is transferred to Oakland, CA?

2. Who did Charles harm?

3. Why does the judge's secretary tell him he must shine at the meeting?

4. What is Ruth waiting for an opening to tell Harold?

5. Why does Charles's lawyer want his crime to be called manslaughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leon describe his landlady?

2. When Mrs. Richards bets a woman is fattening Louis up for the fry, about what does Louis think?

3. What does the group of storytellers who Ginny joined consider themselves and what happens to change this?

4. Why does the editor feel obliged to impose order on the piece of writing in front of him?

5. What does Jed Jones say happened after he heard the shots?

6. What happens when Charles interrupts his attorney's summation?

7. What does Harold's wife, Ruth, demand he do and if he doesn't follow through, what does she say will happen?

8. What does Paul do after months of silence at the mental hospital?

9. What does Clair talk about during her part of the dinner?

10. What does the narrator say great literature has given way to?

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