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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the climate like in the new apartment according to Helen?
(a) The apartment is cold and drafty, a shelter to the four winds.
(b) The apartment is stuffy.
(c) The apartment is swelteringly hot.
(d) The apartment is terribly muggy, like a steamhouse.

2. What is coming through the roof in the apartment?
(a) Electrical wiring; the apartment has yet to be renovated.
(b) The floor from the apartment above; there is a hole.
(c) Water; the roof is leaking.
(d) A tree branch; there was a recent storm.

3. What is Jo sorting through before Helen and Peter leave?
(a) She is sorting through books.
(b) She is sorting through magazines.
(c) She is sorting through the kitchen.
(d) She is sorting through clothes.

4. What kind of cigar is Peter smoking?
(a) A Havana cigar.
(b) An Australian cigar.
(c) A Spanish cigar.
(d) An American Spirit cigar.

5. Why has Helen chosen this apartment?
(a) The appliances are new.
(b) The neighborhood is much nicer than their old neighborhood.
(c) The two rooms allow Jo to have her own apartment.
(d) The rent is low enough for her to pay.

6. What type of music do the first stage directions say should be playing?
(a) Rap music.
(b) Blues music.
(c) Jazz music.
(d) Rock music.

7. What is Jo's boyfriend's plan for the evening when they part?
(a) He is going to a library.
(b) He is going drinking with the boys.
(c) He is going to a museum.
(d) He is going back to the ship because he is on duty.

8. Who did Jo think was was in love with, as she confesses to Heaven?
(a) She thought she was in love with a rock star.
(b) She thought she was in love with the boy around the corner.
(c) She thought she was in love with one of Helen's fancy men.
(d) She thought she was in love with a boy in a book.

9. What does Jo's boyfriend give her?
(a) He gives her a beautiful dress.
(b) He gives her an engagement ring.
(c) He gives her a ticket to leave on his boat.
(d) He gives her a puppy.

10. When Peter leaves, what does Jo admit she is afraid of?
(a) Jo is afraid of strangers.
(b) Jo is afraid of spiders.
(c) Jo is afraid of the dark.
(d) Jo is afraid of heights.

11. What specific kind of dark scares Jo?
(a) The darkness outside.
(b) The darkness of caves.
(c) The darkness inside houses.
(d) The darkness in schools.

12. How does Helen describe the wallpaper?
(a) Contemporary.
(b) Old-fashioned.
(c) Polka-dot.
(d) Floral.

13. What did Jo's boyfriend do before he was in the service?
(a) He was a handyman.
(b) He was a male nurse.
(c) He was a butcher.
(d) He was a veterinarian.

14. Where does Jo get her flower bulbs?
(a) She gets them at the flower shops, for two cents apiece.
(b) They are gifts from her father.
(c) She gets them in the park, when the gardener isn't looking.
(d) She gets them from her neighbor's garden.

15. What factory is across the street from the flat?
(a) A bread factory.
(b) A peanut processing factory.
(c) A Whirlpool plant.
(d) A slaughterhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the move, what is the difference in travel time for Jo's trip to school?

2. How does Helen feel when she discovers Jo's ring?

3. In which branch of the armed forces did Peter serve?

4. What is Peter carrying when he enters the flat?

5. What part of England is the apartment in?

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