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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank not do after Morris tells him to leave?
(a) Say goodbye to Helen.
(b) Clean up his room.
(c) Leave.
(d) Collect his wages.

2. According to Helen, what is 'love' when it comes from Frank's mouth?
(a) A lie.
(b) A disease.
(c) Unholy.
(d) A dirty word.

3. What have Morris and Helen not told Ida?
(a) That Frank must leave.
(b) That Frank was stealing.
(c) That a new grocery store is opening around the corner.
(d) That Ward attacked Helen.

4. What is Frank struggling to realize himself as?
(a) A grocer.
(b) A lover.
(c) A scholar.
(d) A person.

5. What does Frank think the Jews can make from their suffering?
(a) A way of life.
(b) A suit.
(c) A better future.
(d) Hope.

6. What does Morris catch Frank doing?
(a) Stealing.
(b) Talking to Ward Minogue.
(c) Kissing Helen.
(d) Smoking marijuana.

7. What more does Frank want from Helen?
(a) Sex.
(b) To make their relationship public.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Children.

8. What does Morris do after Ida goes to sleep?
(a) Go for a walk.
(b) Have a glass of whiskey.
(c) Shovel the snow.
(d) Smoke a cigarette.

9. What does Helen not attend, blaming her father's illness?
(a) Betty's wedding.
(b) University.
(c) Frank's going-away party.
(d) Schmitz's funeral.

10. What about the Spring moves Morris profoundly?
(a) Birds.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Rain.
(d) Snow.

11. What does Helen feel herself doing despite her doubts?
(a) Becoming more religious.
(b) Moving closer to her destiny.
(c) Falling in love in Frank.
(d) Drifting apart from her parents.

12. What does Tessie discover?
(a) That Morris has cancer.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) That Ward is planning on killing Frank and Helen.
(d) Frank's gun.

13. Who smelled the gas first?
(a) Ida.
(b) Nick.
(c) Frank.
(d) Tessie.

14. What does Nick smell in the hall?
(a) Smoke.
(b) A rat.
(c) Gas.
(d) Blood.

15. What might get lost with Frank's name on it?
(a) A pile of money.
(b) His gun.
(c) Frank's driver's license.
(d) Drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will Morris be without a business for the first time in decades?

2. What is the skinny man's profession?

3. What part of Frank is crooked?

4. What does Ida promise to leave for Podolsky if he buys the business?

5. What does Frank carve for Helen out of wood?

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