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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days does Morris spend in the hospital?

2. What is the skinny man's profession?

3. How does Frank feel about his actions?

4. How did Morris describe the man who hit him in the robbery?

5. Who will buy Morris' house and store?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Charlie Sobeloff do to Morris?

2. How does business at the store change? What does Frank do to try and help it?

3. Describe Helen and Frank's arguments about sex, and how they are resolved.

4. What options are left open for the Bobers and their store?

5. How does Frank feel about his actions? What did he do to Helen?

6. How does Morris react when Frank tells him the truth about the hold-up?

7. What is the skinny man's proposition? What does Morris do?

8. What happens to Karp's liquor store? How does Morris feel about it?

9. What plans does Helen have if she and Frank get married?

10. What arrangement does Karp propose to Morris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay detailing a plan for re-designing the Bober grocery store and turning it into a successful business. Thing to consider:

1) Products, promotions, specials, and displays to attract and keep customers.

2) The possibility of turning the grocery store into an entirely different type of business.

3) What you feel are the main problems facing the business, and how you will correct them.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing how you feel Frank and Helen's lives turn out following the end of the novel. Be sure to address:

1) How you feel the character traits of Frank and Helen will determine their futures.

2) Whether or not you think Frank and Helen will marry, and why.

3) Whether you feel the author intends the reader to have a positive or negative impression of Frank and Helen's lives following the end of the story, and why.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the American Dream. Be sure to address:

1) What the American Dream means to you.

2) Obstacles faced by new Americans trying to achieve the American Dream.

3) Whether or not you feel the American Dream is still alive today, and why.

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