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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 do the boys do on rainy days?
(a) Do homework.
(b) Go to the library.
(c) Go to museums.
(d) Play indoor sports.

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

3. How many New York advertising men are staying at the same hotel as Muriel Glass?
(a) 107.
(b) 97.
(c) 77.
(d) 57.

4. Ginnie dreams that a servant gives _____ out instead of tomato juice at dinner.
(a) Tennis balls.
(b) Chicken sandwiches.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tennis rackets.

5. Why does Ginnie need money before Monday?
(a) She is going to buy tennis balls.
(b) She is going to the movies.
(c) She is going to pay back her father.
(d) She is going to buy a new rackett.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eloise and Mary Jane become friends?

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

3. How often does the Comanche Club meet?

4. Where does Selena's brother meet Ginnie's sister?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the setting appropriate for the story, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?

2. How does the reader know the setting takes place shortly after the end of World War II?

3. Why doesn't the narrator list all of the Chief's attributes?

4. What happens with Seymour and the trees?

5. Why can the reader sympathize with Eloise more than envy her?

6. What can the reader like about a character like Muriel?

7. Why does Muriel insist that Seymour isn't capable of harmful actions?

8. Why aren't there any men 'seen' in the story, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?

9. What is the issue with the book Seymour gives Muriel?

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

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