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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 does Seymour do to Sybil right before they get out of the water?
(a) He splashes her.
(b) He drops her into the water.
(c) He kisses one of her feet.
(d) He shows her the fish he is looking for.

2. Who does Seymour call 'Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948'?
(a) Sybil.
(b) Muriel.
(c) Muriel's mother.
(d) Jane.

3. Why does Ramona sleep on the edge of the bed?
(a) She can see out of the window better when she's close to the edge.
(b) She wants to give Jimmy Jimmereano room to sleep.
(c) She doesn't, she sleeps in the middle of the bed.
(d) She likes to be ready to get out of bed quickly.

4. Who is Sybil Carpenter?
(a) A friend of Muriel's family.
(b) A 55-year-old woman on vacation with her son.
(c) A five-year-old girl staying at the hotel.
(d) A nurse.

5. Who does Muriel speak with at the hotel about Seymour?
(a) A nice couple also staying at the hotel.
(b) A famous athlete also staying at the hotel.
(c) A Navy man also staying at the hotel.
(d) A psychiatrist also staying at the hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What professional team does the Chief get invited to try out for?

2. Why does Muriel's telephone caller ask so many questions about Seymour's behavior?

3. How long is Mary Jane married?

4. What does the narrator see floating in the wind when he gets off the Chief's vehicle to walk home?

5. Who is Eric?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes the reader think that perhaps Eric is not allowed into the military because he is homosexual?

2. Why does Ginnie suddenly forgive Selena's debt?

3. What does the floating red tissue represent in The Laughing Man?

4. Who is the Laughing Man?

5. What indications does the reader have in the beginning of the story, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, that it is about a wealthy group of people?

6. What do Walt and Jimmy Jimmereeno have in common in the story Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut?

7. What leads the reader to believe that tension is building throughout the story?

8. What is wrong physically with Ramona?

9. What happens with Seymour and the trees?

10. Why is the Chief so important to the boys?

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