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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator compare time to?
(a) Water.
(b) Air.
(c) Fire.
(d) Earth.

2. What does Elaine notice about the boys and girls at Tortonto's shopping centers?
(a) They're trying to look grown up.
(b) They're trying to look like children.
(c) They look like each other.
(d) They look shabby and poor.

3. What is strange about the girls' seating arrangements at the parade?
(a) The girls stand on their seats.
(b) All of the girls sit around Elain so Elain can't see.
(c) None of the girls sits near Elaine.
(d) All of the girls sit low, where they can't see.

4. What store does Elaine go to?
(a) Kitty's Kite Shop.
(b) Barbie's Candy Store.
(c) Johnson's Hardware.
(d) Simpson's Department Store.

5. What trick does Elaine begin using to get out of situations she doesn't like?
(a) Having a screaming fit.
(b) Making her nose bleed.
(c) Pretending to have a siezure.
(d) Fainting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cordelia do after Elaine is sick from being in the cold water?

2. Where do Elaine and her friends watch the Christmas parade from?

3. What did Elaine think of Jon's dirty mattress when they were first dating?

4. What does Elaine buy for the art exhibit?

5. Who offered Elaine a place to stay in Toronto?

Short Essay Questions

1. What nightmares does Elaine have her senior year in high school?

2. What gives Elaine a reprieve from the other girls' tormenting?

3. At the art retrospective, what does Elaine wish she could ask Cordelia?

4. Describe how Stephen dies.

5. What is the condition of the city where the narrator used to get off the streetcar, compared to how the narrator remembers it?

6. Why doesn't Charna want Elaine to be in the gallery when people begin arriving for the art retrospective?

7. How does Elaine feel when she visits the new school?

8. How does Elaine feel toward her ex-husband when she meets him again?

9. How does Elaine describe her marriage to Jon?

10. What was Elaine's reaction to statues of the Virgin Mary she saw in churches?

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