Cannery Row Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Cannery Row Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has given Mack and his boys the ability to survive?
(a) Howard be thy name
(b) The father of all nations
(c) Our father who art in nature
(d) Art father who are in heaven

3. Who else has returned to live at the Palace?
(a) Henri the Painter
(b) Harvey the Acrobat
(c) Harry the Contortionist
(d) Henry the Sculptor

4. What does Steinbeck think has had the most impact on America in two generations?
(a) War
(b) Politics
(c) Technology
(d) The Ford Model T

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

6. What is the name of the old Chinaman who walks through Cannery Row every day?
(a) Chong
(b) Chin
(c) He is unnamed
(d) Lee

7. Why does Lee make the decision he does about the building?
(a) Refusal would mean broken windows and fire.
(b) He is a philanthropist at heart.
(c) He needs a tax deduction.
(d) The city needs more parking space.

8. 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.

9. Over the years, what does Doc become for Cannery Row?
(a) A cultural presence
(b) A councilman
(c) A philanthropist
(d) A major employer

10. What does Frankie eventually do for Doc?
(a) Serves drinks at parties
(b) Sweeps the floors of the lab
(c) Cleans the fish tanks
(d) Run errands

11. What happens when Lee's car refuses to go any further without a new needle valve?
(a) Gay sets off to find one and disappears for 180 days.
(b) Mack knows a friend who can help them.
(c) The boys hitchhike to where they are going.
(d) Gay knows of a good junkyard and gets what he needs there.

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

13. 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

14. What happens to Lee's car on Carmel Hill?
(a) It runs out of gas.
(b) It cannot make it up the hill.
(c) It rolls backward.
(d) It dies completely.

15. What happens to Dora during the Depression?
(a) She has a nervous breakdown.
(b) She gets married.
(c) She nearly goes bankrupt helping needy families.
(d) She has to close up shop for two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much rent money comes in to Lee?

2. Why does Guy not use his mechanical abilities on the machines in the canneries?

3. What do some say the old Chinaman is?

4. What do the boys hit in Lee's car?

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

(see the answer keys)

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