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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. For what item does Oscar ask Tracey when they are standing outside of the bar together?
(a) A match.
(b) A quarter.
(c) A lighter.
(d) A cigarette.

2. To which state had Jessie and her boyfriend Felix planned to end up in after hitchhiking their way across the country?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) California.
(d) Minnesota.

3. What metaphor does Jessie use when describing how meeting her future husband and getting into the groove of working at the factory had caused her life to stagnate?
(a) She got stuck in the chewing gum.
(b) She got caught in the riptide.
(c) She got caught in the tornado.
(d) She got stuck in the eddies and whirlpools.

4. In addition to her car payments, what other bill is Cynthia most concerned about being able to pay?
(a) Her electric bill.
(b) Chris's tuition bill.
(c) Her mortgage.
(d) Brucie's rent.

5. Why has Cynthia had to move to a different residence during the time Chris has been in prison?
(a) The house had been sold.
(b) Brucie had been stalking her.
(c) She had fallen behind on mortgage payments.
(d) The house had been infested with dangerous black mold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cynthia blame for Chris's incarceration?

2. Who comforts Tracey when she fights back tears at the news of Olstead's demands?

3. When Chris reminisces about seeing his father Brucie and the other workers striking when he was a child, what does he say the men looked like to him?

4. To what animal does Cynthia compare the managers at Olstead's?

5. In what county does Oscar tell Tracey he was born, much to her surprise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence is there that Tracey did not visit Jason while he was incarcerated and how does this fact contrast with Cynthia's actions?

2. In addition to hearing about his mother Tracey's newfound addiction from a neighbor, what evidence of her addiction does he find when he visits her for the first time since his release from prison?

3. What emotion does Cynthia express to Chris that she has been feeling since his incarceration?

4. What does Cynthia mean when she compares her new management job at Olstead's to looking at a map?

5. After the factory lock-out, what hypothesis does Cynthia share with Stan about why she may have been hired in the first place?

6. To what circumstances is Jason referring when he asks Tracey, "How the fuck did this happen?" (66)?

7. What is Oscar's true purpose for going outside where Tracey is smoking outside of the bar?

8. How does the playwright demonstrate through Brucie's struggle that people in town look out for one another?

9. What is Cynthia's reaction to the distance Chris is trying to maintain between them upon his release from prison?

10. What does Cynthia say is the only upside of the trouble at Olstead's during the labor dispute?

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