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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. How does Joel feel when he hears the singing at Miles' tea?
(a) Angry.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Confused.

2. Who says, "Everybody watches for everybody else's blunders, or tries to make sure they're with people that'll do them credit"?
(a) Stella.
(b) Nat.
(c) Joel.
(d) Miles.

3. In the story Nat tells Joel, what time is it when a man calls the Great Lover on the telephone?
(a) Three o'clock.
(b) Eight o'clock.
(c) Eleven thirty.
(d) One o'clock.

4. Where does Joel live?
(a) Hollywood.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New York City.
(d) London.

5. Who asks, "What do you mean you're in permanent retirement"?
(a) Joel.
(b) Miles.
(c) Stella.
(d) Nat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Joel wish he can just sit and talk to like a person?

2. How does Joel react when he receives a telegram two days after the tea?

3. How much money does Nat tell Joel he makes in a year?

4. What is Stella's job when she meets Joel?

5. What is Nat's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Joel mortified the morning after the first Sunday he spends at the Calman house?

2. Why do party goers look at Stella and Joel curiously when they are chatting at Stella's sister's home?

3. Why does Joel spend the rest of his afternoon at the tea talking to people he does not know?

4. At the beginning of the story, how does Joel feel about Sundays?

5. What does Joel say to Stella about people in Hollywood?

6. What does Joel contemplate when he wakes after spending the night with Stella?

7. Why does Joel call Stella's doctor even though she asks him not to?

8. Why do not Joel and Stella go to the nightclub after the show?

9. What three things happen at once at the end of Part Four?

10. How does Stella come to realize Miles still loves her?

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