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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 adjective did people use to describe Toronto in the past?
(a) Dull.
(b) Homey.
(c) Hopping.
(d) Old-fashioned.

2. What does John make for a living?
(a) Resin body parts for movies.
(b) Strange shaped bottles for soft drinks.
(c) Chairs shaped like ordinary objects.
(d) Wrapping paper designs.

3. Who would the narrator and Cordelia analyze on the streetcars?
(a) Drivers.
(b) Children.
(c) Old ladies.
(d) Pedestrians.

4. How did Elaine feel about coming to her art retrospective?
(a) She was excited about going but worried about the expense.
(b) She wanted to go, but only stay for one day.
(c) She didn't want to go.
(d) She was thrilled and couldn't wait to leave.

5. When Elaine dreams of Toronto, where is she?
(a) In the sewers.
(b) On the bus.
(c) At home.
(d) Lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Elaine give up?

2. Why does Elaine think Carol is a sissy?

3. Why doesn't Elaine want to look at her paintings?

4. How does Elaine feel about Grace Smeath's mother?

5. At the store, what does someone try to steal from Elaine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Elaine feel when she attributes her feelings to Cordelia, instead of to herself?

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

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

4. How does Elaine feel when she sees her old school doesn't exist anymore?

5. How does Elaine feel when she first meets Cordelia?

6. What is Elaine's attitude toward marriage while she is dating Josef?

7. What is the major element of her life that Elaine comes to terms with at the end of the novel?

8. What does the narrator imagine Cordelia inside of?

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

10. How does Cordelia act when Elaine's father comes to check on the girls watching the parade?

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