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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 is the name and location of the club where Oliver and his father are eating?
(a) Harvard Club in Boston.
(b) Racquet Ball Club in Boston.
(c) Yale Club in Boston.
(d) Harvard Club in Boothbay Harbor.

2. What does Oliver's father say he will do if Oliver marries Jenny?
(a) Come to the wedding reluctantly.
(b) Try to have the marriage annulled.
(c) Cut Oliver out of his life.
(d) Have a hit man kill Jenny.

3. What is Oliver and his father's relationship like at this point in the story?
(a) They have managed to reconcile somewhat.
(b) Completely estranged; they are not speaking to each other.
(c) They both speak to each through Oliver's mother, which is how Oliver gets money for school.
(d) They are going to therapy together.

4. What is a new element in Oliver's life?
(a) Phil as a surrogate father.
(b) Having to worry about money.
(c) The baby Jenny just had.
(d) The thrill of being engaged.

5. Who is attending her graduation?
(a) No one; Phil had to work.
(b) Just her dad, Phil.
(c) Many of her relatives.
(d) Just her dad and her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oliver do next?

2. What seems evident to be developing between Jenny and Oliver?

3. Who is Phil?

4. What does Oliver hear Jenny say to a man named Phil?

5. What does the dinner conversation foreshadow in Oliver's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oliver do to keep Jenny with him?

2. What does the Dean say to Oliver about his request?

3. What is Jenny doing when Oliver comes to pick her up and what does he do?

4. What does Oliver III tell his son will happen if he marries Jenny and what does Oliver do?

5. How did Oliver get hurt in his game with Cornell?

6. What does Oliver hear when he goes over to Jenny when he's picking her up and what does he say? How does she answer?

7. Why does Oliver watch Jenny when introducing his parents to her?

8. Why is Oliver nervous about meeting Jenny's father?

9. What does Oliver admit about his relationship with Jenny?

10. What do Oliver and Jenny tell her father about how they plan to wed?

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