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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Rosicky's desire?
(a) To stay in the city.
(b) To return to the country.
(c) To sing in the opera.
(d) To ride horses.

2. What does Dr. Burleigh tell Rosicky he needs to cut out of his life?
(a) Walking.
(b) Farm work.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Dancing.

3. What kind of job did Rosicky have during his youth?
(a) He was a sheepherder.
(b) He was a tailor.
(c) He was a baker's assistant.
(d) He was a mail boy.

4. What color is the flower Mary snaps off and puts in the doctor's buttonhole?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Pink.
(d) Yellow.

5. How much did Rosicky pay for standing room at the opera?
(a) Fifty cents.
(b) One dollar.
(c) One dollar and fifty cents.
(d) Two dollars.

6. What is the most disagreeable feeling that Rosicky knows?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Loneliness.

7. Whom did Loeffler buy wood from?
(a) Sea captains.
(b) Peddlers.
(c) Shop owners from South America.
(d) Merchants at the market.

8. What color are the grapes on the Rosickys' table?
(a) Blue.
(b) Purple.
(c) White.
(d) Green.

9. How many years does Dr. Burleigh think Rosicky's heart is good for?
(a) Five or six years.
(b) Six or seven years.
(c) Two or three years.
(d) Nine or ten years.

10. After Anton's grandfather died whom did he go to live with?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father and stepmother.
(c) His father's parents.
(d) His aunt.

11. Rosicky thinks his heart is fine but that he has a little of what?
(a) The flu.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Chicken Pox.
(d) Headaches.

12. What did Rosicky find wrong with the cities?
(a) They "sealed you into a world of work and pain".
(b) They "took you away from your loves".
(c) They "captured your freedom".
(d) They "cemented you away from any contact with the ground".

13. What do the boys do if Rosicky goes to throw hay down from the loft?
(a) They yell for their mother.
(b) They yell at their father to stop.
(c) They physically carry Rosicky down from the loft.
(d) They take the fork from him.

14. What is in the soil on Mr. Rosicky's farm?
(a) Clay.
(b) Earthworms.
(c) Large stones.
(d) Bones.

15. Rosicky complains that though he is getting to be an old man he's not what yet?
(a) An old dog.
(b) An old woman.
(c) Dead.
(d) An old cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of cap does Rosicky wear?

2. Why does Mr. Rosicky need ticking?

3. How many boys does Rosicky have?

4. What is the name of the girl that waits on Mr. Rosicky?

5. What is the color of the stripes that the ticking has that Mr. Rosicky buys?

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