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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the house to always be dusty?
(a) The coming and going of the customers.
(b) The street cleaners.
(c) The lumberyard.
(d) The coal yard.

2. How often does Helen visit the library every week?
(a) Seven times.
(b) Twice.
(c) Once.
(d) Three times.

3. Who is Podolsky?
(a) The landlord.
(b) The smuggler.
(c) The refugee.
(d) The tax collector.

4. What happens to Morris when he is moving the milk boxes?
(a) He throws out his back.
(b) He is shot by robbers.
(c) Frank stabs him in the heart.
(d) He passes out.

5. What does Frank give Helen as a gift?
(a) A scarf and a copy of Shakespeare.
(b) A necklace and a fashion magazine.
(c) A dress and a copy of the Bible.
(d) A hat and Frank's personal diary.

6. What does Frank want to get rid of?
(a) His problems with alcohol.
(b) The memories of his childhood.
(c) His gun.
(d) Morris.

7. What hours does Frank work in the store?
(a) Five to five.
(b) Six to six.
(c) Eight to eight.
(d) Seven to seven.

8. Who does Frank recognize in the stories?
(a) Helen.
(b) Famous people from history.
(c) Himself.
(d) People that he used to know.

9. What favor does Frank do for Morris?
(a) Frank washes the windows of the store.
(b) Frank burns down the store of the German across the street.
(c) Frank lends Morris $5 with no interest.
(d) Frank finds the men who held up the store and brings them to justice.

10. What does Ida suspect?
(a) That Frank is stealing from the store.
(b) That Frank is not who he says he is.
(c) That Frank is a gangster.
(d) That there is something between Frank and Helen.

11. What does Morris get from across the street?
(a) A present for Frank.
(b) A haircut.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) The newspaper.

12. What school did Nat Pearl go to?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Columbia.
(d) NYU.

13. How old is the girl who enters the store?
(a) In her early twenties.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Six.

14. What does Ida say will happen because of Frank?
(a) A catastrophe.
(b) A tragedy.
(c) A big pile of nothing.
(d) A miracle.

15. What is Morris' one true refreshment?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age does Helen miss?

2. How did Karp make his fortune?

3. According to Morris, what kills the small man?

4. How much money does Frank take in while minding the store?

5. How old is Ida?

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