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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. After the family meeting, where does one of Brenda's brothers go?
(a) Back to his own city.
(b) To see Tony.
(c) To talk to his uncle.
(d) To talk to the judge.

2. What does Tony decide?
(a) To kill himself.
(b) To go away for six months.
(c) To give her the increased amount.
(d) To kill Brenda.

3. Who does Tony engage to start the divorce proceedings?
(a) Some seedy lawyers.
(b) His family's loyal retainer.
(c) His brother-in-law.
(d) No one; he's going to take care of it himself.

4. Who arrives first at the meeting point for Tony and Milly?
(a) Jock.
(b) Milly.
(c) Two detectives.
(d) Tony.

5. How does Tony's weekend farce turn out?
(a) A total failure.
(b) Successful.
(c) Tony gets interested in Milly and actually hopes to date her.
(d) Not quite as successful as they had hoped, so he has to do it again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What propels Tony to start a dialog with Brenda?

2. What does Jock tell Tony?

3. What is hard for Tony?

4. What do Tony and Messinger do?

5. Why does Tony have to prove his infidelity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolic significance of the first book that Tony reads?

2. How is it that Tony seems to be the "bad" guy in a number of ways?

3. What is Tony's position in Brenda's social circle by the end of this chapter?

4. How has Tony again entrusted his life to someone for whom that trust is not valid?

5. How does Tony finally take some of his own personal power back and take charge of his destiny?

6. How does Tony manage to survive in the jungle?

7. Why do you think Tony decides to go away for awhile?

8. Why does Tony have to appear to be in the wrong?

9. How has John Beaver fared through the saga of Tony and Brenda's failed marriage?

10. What happens after Brenda has written Tony and telling him about John Beaver?

(see the answer keys)

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