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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Doc's driving style?
(a) He slows down, then speeds up erratically.
(b) He drives slowly and stops often.
(c) He swerves back and forth looking out toward the sea.
(d) He speeds to get to the sea as quickly as possible.

2. Who leaves La Ida's in the company of girls?
(a) Their boyfriends
(b) Their blind dates
(c) Two soldiers
(d) Their cousins

3. Near Los Angeles, what does Doc load up on after he eats a hearty chicken dinner?
(a) Coffee, sandwiches and beer for breakfast
(b) Coffee and pie for breakfast
(c) Coffee and omelets for breakfast
(d) Coffee, orange juice and muffins for breakfast

4. Where does Henri the Painter live in his imagination?
(a) Australia
(b) Paris
(c) Berlin
(d) Maui

5. What does Doc live on during this hectic time?
(a) Whiskey and burgers
(b) Cheese and crackers
(c) Beer and canned sardines
(d) Soup and orange juice

6. What has enthralled Henri the Painter?
(a) His new fishing pole
(b) Watching a flagpole sitter/skater
(c) His new car
(d) A new girl at the Bear Flag

7. What does the captain bring up from the cellar?
(a) Sleeping cots
(b) Bottles of beer
(c) A keg of Prohibition-vintage corn whiskey
(d) Food for the pups

8. On what pretense does Mack get Doc to admit his birth date?
(a) He and Hazel are making a birthday reminder calendar
(b) Hazel and Eddie are studying numerology
(c) Hazel and Hughie are updating the birthday card list
(d) Hazel and Hughie are studying astrology

9. What are Mack and the boys known as now?
(a) Religious zealots
(b) The life of the party
(c) Heroes
(d) Social outcasts

10. What does Doc do after his meal?
(a) Goes to a club
(b) Checks into a hotel
(c) Picks up a hitchhiker
(d) Visits an old friend

11. What is the mood at the Palace when Mack returns from the lab?
(a) Hopeful
(b) Ecstatic
(c) Gloomy
(d) Calm

12. What happens when the boys approach the frog pool?
(a) The frogs grow silent.
(b) It gets really foggy.
(c) Mack falls in the mud.
(d) It starts to rain.

13. Why does Mack turn down the captain's first offer of a drink?
(a) Mack is trying to quit drinking.
(b) The frog hunt is a scientific expedition.
(c) It is too early to drink.
(d) Mack is a recovering alcoholic.

14. How deep is the frog pool?
(a) fourteen feet
(b) four feet
(c) eight feet
(d) ten feet

15. Who garners much attention after falling sick?
(a) Mack
(b) Doc
(c) Darling
(d) Lee

Short Answer Questions

1. What does doc find when he wades into the water and parts the mass of algae?

2. What takes over on Cannery Row?

3. Whose advice does Henri seek after having a nightmare?

4. Which two boys play in the boat works yard by the railroad tracks?

5. What type of hat does Henri the Painter wear?

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