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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 are Scully and the Swede doing when they enter the room?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Choking.
(c) Coughing.
(d) Bickering.

2. What card game is Scully's son playing?
(a) Poker.
(b) Double Solitaire.
(c) High Five.
(d) Euchre.

3. Why does Scully yell at Johnnie?
(a) To get more whiskey.
(b) To get clean glasses.
(c) To bring new patrons from the station.
(d) To move from his place by the stove.

4. What does Scully try to do with the Swede?
(a) Play cards.
(b) Get him to talk about his job.
(c) Play chess.
(d) Keep him from leaving.

5. What does Scully offer and the Swede declines?
(a) Water.
(b) Tea.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of card players are the Swede and the Easterner?

2. Why does Scully go to the Swede's room?

3. What do the other men ask Scully after the Swede leaves?

4. Why does the Swede get up and leave the room?

5. Who serves the noon day meal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Stephen Crane's works enjoy such a wide and varied audience?

2. What is the Swede's demeanor when he reenters the room with Scully?

3. How could Scully be characterized?

4. What is the setting for THE BLUE HOTEL?

5. How does the Swede react to the whiskey offered to him by Scully?

6. How does Johnnie react to the Swede's startling statement?

7. What is the real name of the Blue Hotel and who is the proprietor?

8. Why does Scully go to the Swede's room?

9. Who are the three train passengers that Scully brings to his hotel?

10. What is the mood in the hotel at the beginning of Chapter 2 and what happens to alter it?

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