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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sam say he can't let Louie go?
(a) He needs her to stay.
(b) He needs her income.
(c) He has too many burdens.
(d) He can't afford to let her go.

2. What is the state of Sam and Henny's relationship when Henny is making a gift for Cathleen?
(a) It's the same as it ever was.
(b) It's disintegrated.
(c) It's healthier.
(d) It's not clear to either of them, what with the move.

3. What does Sam get the children excited about?
(a) A large fish.
(b) A deer.
(c) The possibility of a big job.
(d) The fantasy of living in a big house.

4. Where does Louie go?
(a) Her mother's family in Harper's Ferry.
(b) To live with Miss Aiden.
(c) Anywhere.
(d) Washington D.C.

5. What is Sam's response to this event?
(a) He is determined to enjoy the summer.
(b) He consumes himself in preparing to present his case.
(c) He starts looking for work immediately.
(d) He rants and raves about the injustice of it.

6. What does Sam say when Louie confesses to him?
(a) He does not believe her.
(b) She did the right thing.
(c) He was going to do it himself.
(d) He has to report her.

7. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Sam and Colonel Willets?
(a) Colonel Willets is afraid of Sam's ambition.
(b) Colonel Willets loathes Sam's intellectual background.
(c) Colonel Willets resents Sam's easy-going personality.
(d) Colonel Willets simply doesn't like Sam.

8. Who is Saul Pilgrim?
(a) Louie's friend in Harper's Ferry.
(b) Sam's old friend.
(c) Henny's confidante.
(d) Colonel Willets' inspector.

9. What have the children become by the end of the summer?
(a) Little field biologists.
(b) Excellent poets.
(c) Disgusted with fishing.
(d) Expert fishermen.

10. What do Sam and Henny discover when David Collyer's will is read?
(a) He was broke.
(b) David Collyer left it all to charity.
(c) Everything was left to Henny's siblings.
(d) Henny was specifically written out of the will.

11. Why does Sam dislike alcohol in his house?
(a) His religion prohibits alcohol.
(b) It clouds the mind.
(c) He was an alcoholic once.
(d) It makes people unruly and rebellious against him.

12. What is Sam's status in terms of work, in Chapter 9?
(a) He is still not working, but has a promise of work.
(b) He has a new job.
(c) He has been told that he is unemployable.
(d) He is still looking for work.

13. Where is the house Sam finds?
(a) In a slum.
(b) In a suburb of Baltimore.
(c) In a poor neighborhood.
(d) In an apartment building.

14. What does Cathleen love more than anything?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Dolls.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Reading.

15. What does Henny say she wishes the children would do?
(a) Die.
(b) Finish their homework.
(c) Take care of themselves.
(d) Chip in on chores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henny snap at when she is in a foul mood?

2. What happens to Bonnie's baby?

3. What does Josephine Pollit carry on about?

4. What does Saul Pilgrim talk about when he comes to visit?

5. What does Sam propose to Bonnie?

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