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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. What does Clara read in "Poetry"?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Ibsen.

2. What time are thugs brought in in "Sting"?
(a) 11.
(b) 10.
(c) 1.
(d) 12.

3. When Clara walks to work in "Summer," how many sleeping bodies does she walk over?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) 250.
(c) Thousands.
(d) 300.

4. In "Silence," where does Clara go?
(a) Library.
(b) Home.
(c) Union hall.
(d) Synagogue.

5. In "Trash," where do Clara and the others march?
(a) Sixteenth Street.
(b) Fourteenth Street.
(c) Nineteenth Street.
(d) Twenty-Fourth Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people gathered in Times Square to watch a giant ball of light slide down a flagpole?

2. Who must start attending school in "School"?

3. In "Planning (i)," what do Pauline and Clara gamble with?

4. Who is fired for getting blood on a pattern piece in "Blood"?

5. What flower did Clara feel like at the end of "Joe"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Clara spend time in jail?

2. What is Purim and who is Esther?

3. What opportunity does the director at the free school offer Clara?

4. In "Celebration," what job does Clara get and what does it pay?

5. Why does Clara get fired in "Make it Right"?

6. How much work can be done by hand and by a machine, and how does that affect the demands of the boss?

7. How does Nathan appear when he finally comes home?

8. In "Fire," what is the shop like that Clara works in?

9. What happens to a young girl in "Lull"?

10. Where does Clara go and what does she do in "A Different Life"?

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