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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 is Henny's response when Sam confronts her?
(a) She knows who wrote the letter.
(b) He is a worthless person, who has no right to accuse her.
(c) She would never have betrayed him, even in spite of his infidelities.
(d) She has every right to have affairs, considering his infidelities.

2. How does the narrator say Henny's moods change?
(a) They become more changeable.
(b) They become angrier.
(c) They become more vile.
(d) They mellow.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam offer Bonnie?

2. According to the narrator, Saul Pilgrim is the only person who will ______________.

3. Why does the Pollit family have to leave Georgetown?

4. What happens to Bonnie in the end of the book?

5. How does Clare approach her poverty?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is uncommon about Cathleen's eighteenth birthday?

2. What does Henny say about the news Jo brings?

3. How does the new baby strain the Pollit household?

4. How does Sam react to the birth of a new baby?

5. How does Sam react when Louie tells him that she killed Henny?

6. How has the relationship between Sam and Henny changed by the time of Cathleen's eighteenth birthday?

7. How do things come to a head with Colonel Willets and Sam?

8. How does the topic of poetry figure in Sam's homecoming celebration?

9. Why doesn't Sam let Louie go when she says she wants to leave?

10. What is Ernie's main concern, which has Sam so displeased?

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