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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Mack and the boys call their new residence?
(a) Palace Flophouse and Grill
(b) Big Mack Attack
(c) Fish Bait r Us
(d) Mack and the Boys

2. Why does Guy not use his mechanical abilities on the machines in the canneries?
(a) Guy has a bad temper.
(b) The owners are too cheap to hire him.
(c) Guy is too shy to ask for work.
(d) Guy never shows up on time.

3. With whom did Lee consummate a recent business deal?
(a) Mack Abbeville
(b) Wes Chong
(c) Dora Abbeville
(d) Horace Abbeville

4. What does Frankie enjoy doing at Doc's?
(a) Organizing the marine specimens
(b) Feeding the fish
(c) Eating lunch with Doc
(d) Watching and listening to Doc's parties

5. Who visits Doc as Doc is organizing his recently collected starfish?
(a) Lee
(b) Eddie
(c) Dora
(d) Mack

6. What does Mack want to do?
(a) He wants to hitchhike back east.
(b) He wants to do something nice for Doc.
(c) He wants to get a part time job.
(d) He wants to find a new place to live.

7. Who is the owner and operator of Western Biological Laboratories?
(a) Lee
(b) Dora
(c) Doc
(d) Mack

8. What happens when the boiler at the answer to #51 stops working?
(a) It blows up.
(b) It causes a fire which burns an entire block.
(c) It has run successfully for ten years straight.
(d) It is dumped and gutted for parts.

9. As a result of his generosity and sympathy, people want to ________________________.
(a) do nice things for Doc
(b) donate time to Doc
(c) give money to Doc
(d) take Doc out to dinner

10. What are Mack and his boys considered to be in Monterey?
(a) Criminals looking for their next crime
(b) Just plain bums
(c) Good guys who just ran out of luck
(d) Virtues, Graces and Beauties

11. Who is the leader of a small group of homeless men?
(a) Mack
(b) Wes
(c) Dora
(d) Eddie

12. Where is Western Biological Laboratories located?
(a) Along the oceanfront
(b) In the industrial part of town
(c) In the desert
(d) Across from Lee's and Dora's businesses

13. Who fills up Lee's car with gas at the service station?
(a) Mack
(b) Eddie
(c) Hazel
(d) Gay

14. What happens to the boiler?
(a) It is melted down.
(b) It is repurposed for other cannery departments.
(c) It is sold for scrap metal.
(d) A couple named the Malloys move into it as a safe apartment.

15. What is Doc's last name?
(a) Chong
(b) It is not revealed
(c) Baker
(d) Flood

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the old Chinaman who walks through Cannery Row every day?

2. Who has given Mack and his boys the ability to survive?

3. What is the condition of Lee's car?

4. What job does Doc assign to Mack?

5. What do some say the old Chinaman is?

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