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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Phillip left his home in Memphis for New York, what is his plan?
(a) To leave home and travel to South America to find Clara.
(b) To return to Nashville to live and work.
(c) To leave unannounced and establish himself in the rare book business.
(d) To leave the south and head for California.

2. What quality in himself does Alex say he likes least?
(a) He is a poor student.
(b) He is plain Memphis.
(c) He is an only child.
(d) He is a cheater.

3. Why does Phillip believe his father goes to the same nightclubs as his daughters?
(a) He wants to dance with young women in front of his daughters.
(b) They are the clubs his daughters talk about to him.
(c) He wants his daughters to see him.
(d) He wants to show his family he is still young.

4. Where do Holly and Phillip live?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Newark.

5. What does Mr. Carver represent to Alex?
(a) Intellectualism.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Practicality.
(d) Sophistication.

6. How does Alex refer to Betsy and Josephine?
(a) "Those two awful Nashville girls."
(b) "Those two awful Memphis girls."
(c) "Those two stupid Nashville women."
(d) "Those two silly Tennessee girls."

7. How does Alex's father define the best human being?
(a) The oldest person.
(b) The most intellectual person.
(c) The person who has earned the most money.
(d) The one who adjusts best to his circumstances.

8. What does Phillip do with the gift he had plans to give to Clara but does not?
(a) Mails it to Clara.
(b) Returns it to his mother.
(c) Keeps it with his valuables.
(d) Sells it at a pawn shop.

9. What adventures do Betsy and Josephine write and tell Phillip about concerning their father?
(a) Dancing with young women in bars.
(b) Dating older women.
(c) Golf outings with older women.
(d) Fishing trips with friends.

10. In what year does the relationship between Clara and Phillip end?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1941.

11. Both Betsy and Josephine call to give Phillip what news?
(a) Their father has eloped with a young woman.
(b) Their father is moving back to Nashville.
(c) Their father is remarrying.
(d) Their father is deathly ill.

12. How do Betsy and Josephine refer to the women Mr. Carver begins dating after he dates older women?
(a) "Youngish women."
(b) "Gold diggers."
(c) "Opportunists."
(d) "Floozies."

13. What is the consequence for Mr. Carver's mistake that night which is witnessed by Betsy and Joesphine?
(a) Mr. Carver is arrested by the police.
(b) Mr. Carver is taken away in an ambulance.
(c) Mr. Carver is kicked out of the bar.
(d) Mr. Carver is fined two hundred dollars.

14. What name does Alex use for addressing Mrs. Carver?
(a) Mother.
(b) Auntie.
(c) Mrs. Carver
(d) Miss MInta.

15. How long do the Carvers live in Memphis?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Three years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two decades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Phillip first see Clara?

2. What other places does Mr. Carver frequent?

3. What does father do for work when arriving in Memphis?

4. According to Phillip, how many children do Alex and his wife have?

5. What is the name of Phillip's school in Nashville?

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