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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 is the look that Anna ascribes to the men in Robbie's family, though they all sort of look like him, too?
(a) High end.
(b) Blue collar.
(c) Poverty.
(d) White collar.

2. What did the nephews spend all afternoon doing while the adults attended the wake?
(a) Collecting butterflies.
(b) Eating mud pies.
(c) Collecting frogs.
(d) Playing tag.

3. At what time did Anna finally get ready to leave the wake, but it's been two hours since the last bus left?
(a) Two in the morning.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Nine.
(d) Ten.

4. ______________ chides Anna by asking why she does not just go ahead and marry Burton for the money.
(a) Pale.
(b) Robbie.
(c) Larry.
(d) Maria.

5. Pale compares Robbie to other guys by claiming that most guys are __________, but Robbie was light.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Heavy.
(c) Dark.
(d) Hard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pale goes on about how he hates the social niceties of __________ and the like.

2. Pale admits that he might have done some __________ earlier in the evening when Anna asks.

3. What has Anna turned to in order to find solace while she had the phone turned off during the day?

4. What did another car do to Pale as he pulled into a space before coming up to see Anna?

5. Who yells from the hallway later on in the first scene, trying to get someone's attention?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were many of Robbie's dance colleagues and friends unable to attend the service?

2. Why did Burton take a job at eighteen as a messenger delivering to various homes?

3. What is Anna's opinion of Burton's script after she reads it and what is his reaction?

4. What are some of the things that Larry reveals he was told not to put on the Chrysler Christmas card he is designing?

5. What happens to Anna when she is sleeping in the bedroom of the one of the nephews in Robbie's family?

6. What does Larry remind Burton about the money that Burton receives for the scripts he writers?

7. What is the reasoning Anna gives for having spent a lot of money on the new flutes?

8. What does Pale admit to doing in addition to drinking before he came over to see Anna and to get Robbie's things?

9. When Burton describes Hollywood as a bunch of whores, what is Larry's response to this assessment?

10. What does Burton say that he misses about women's clothing as he helps Anna with her dress?

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