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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Gay's wife no longer swear out warrants against him?
(a) They are in couples therapy.
(b) He likes the new jail too much.
(c) She is trying to manage her anger.
(d) He is not worth the effort.

4. What do the boys want to load up on for the trip?
(a) Gas and maps
(b) Snacks and soft drinks
(c) Food and liquor
(d) Beer

5. What does Mack do to separate space for the residents of the Palace?
(a) Draws chalk lines on the floor
(b) Builds temporary walls
(c) Puts up paper screens
(d) Puts up crates

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

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

8. What are Lee's first thoughts about the building he now owns?
(a) He can tear it down and sell the land.
(b) He can rent it out as storage space.
(c) He can store his boat in it.
(d) Storing inventory there would only invite thievery.

9. How do Mack and the boys furnish their new residence?
(a) With milk crates and wooden skids
(b) With furniture that people give them
(c) With stolen furniture painted with stolen red paint
(d) With furniture they buy on credit

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

11. What is Lee's final solution about the building?
(a) He lets Mack and the boys live there.
(b) He rents it out for events.
(c) He demolishes it and makes a parking garage.
(d) He rents boat storage space to people.

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

13. How much rent money comes in to Lee?
(a) $50
(b) $750
(c) $1500
(d) $0

14. Where do Mack and the boys sleep?
(a) On the floor
(b) On skids
(c) On cots
(d) On old mattresses

15. What happens after the conclusion of the deal?
(a) The answer to #4 pays his creditors.
(b) The answser to #4 takes his wife to dinner.
(c) The answer to #4 goes to the bar.
(d) The answer to #4 shoots himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack tell doc?

2. What is the business of Western Biological Laboratories?

3. Why does Doc go to La Jolla?

4. What type of business does Lee Chong own?

5. Who is the child who sees something mysterious in the old Chinaman's eyes?

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