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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 news does Gene give to Paul?
(a) Kathryn told him she loves him.
(b) He is going to marry Christine.
(c) He is moving to Europe.
(d) A publisher has rejected his manuscript.

2. What does Stofsky do when he thinks the cops will be showing up at his apartment?
(a) Flushes his drugs.
(b) Calls his lawyer.
(c) Grabs money and runs.
(d) Turns off all the lights.

3. How does Paul feel when his friends drive away in the car headed to California?
(a) glad.
(b) afraid.
(c) envious.
(d) relieved.

4. Winnie's boyfriend is a ___________________.
(a) petty criminal.
(b) writer.
(c) dog catcher.
(d) bartender.

5. Paul says that _______________ is about feeling so deeply that you go beyond it, to the end of feeling, and to a loss of interest in everything.
(a) love.
(b) hatred.
(c) fear.
(d) cool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of discussion when Gene and Paul meet?

2. How does Dinah feel about Hart's story about Margo?

3. Which of the following has NOT been arrested as declared by Verger?

4. Why did May never kiss Verger?

5. Stofsky's former professor asks if Stofsky believes in _____________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author position the grubby young man at the wharfside bar?

2. How does Stofsky try to mend the group after the departure of Hart and Pasternak?

3. Instead of their immature treatment of Kathryn, what is really important to Paul and Pasternak?

4. Why does Paul feel the need to call Estelle?

5. What does Agatson's verbal attack on Verger mean and why does May even defend Agatson?

6. Why doesn't Paul mail the letters he writes to Liza?

7. What is the significance of the radio that Kathryn rejects and Stofsky accepts?

8. After the exhaustion of Hart's wildness, what does Paul begin to think about regarding another way of finding meaning in his life?

9. How does Hart's past behavior foreshadow trouble for the group?

10. Why is Paul unaware of his true feelings about Kathryn?

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