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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the captain do before passing out on the floor drunk?
(a) Talks about his wife
(b) Invites the boys to live with him
(c) Tries to cook breakfast
(d) Fills a jug for Mack

2. What do each of the boys carry to the frog hunt?
(a) A bottle of beer
(b) A glass of whiskey and a flashlight
(c) A bucket
(d) A net

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

4. Where did Doc go to college?
(a) Ohio State University
(b) Columbia University
(c) Georgia Tech
(d) The University of Chicago

5. What is a major problem of Doc's job?
(a) Fighting off boredom
(b) The smells inside his lab
(c) Getting the universities to pay him
(d) Collecting his specimens when nature makes them available

6. What illness breaks out in all of Monterey?
(a) Gastroenteritis
(b) Measles
(c) Chicken Pox
(d) Influenza

7. What date does Doc give Mack as his birthday?
(a) June 25
(b) October 24
(c) October 27
(d) September 14

8. Where does Doc stop for his first square meal?
(a) Santa Barbara
(b) San Diego
(c) San Jose
(d) Santa Cruz

9. Doc drives to the cliffs above the tidal flat and ____________ in the car.
(a) Listens to music
(b) Counts stars
(c) Checks his notes
(d) Sleeps

10. What takes over on Cannery Row?
(a) Ambition
(b) Peace
(c) Greed
(d) Evil

11. Who is the only person in town who has the nerve to ask the flagpole sitter how he goes to the toilet?
(a) Richard Frost
(b) Doc
(c) Dora Flood
(d) Lee Chong

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

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

14. What change do the people of Monterey feel?
(a) The fashions are too severe.
(b) The weather is too cold for this time of year.
(c) The economy is not good right now.
(d) Everything is thriving again.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doc think about the boys?

2. How is Cannery Row described in Chapter 14?

3. Where does Henri the Painter live in his imagination?

4. What time does Doc reach La Jolla?

5. Why does Doc have to treat the people who come down with the illness?

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