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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joel feel after he finishes his skit?

2. How much does Nat pay his new employee a year?

3. What does Joel do for a living?

4. Who does Joel write a letter to the morning after the tea?

5. Who says, "Thanks for your cooperation"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Stella give for why Miles is not attending the dinner and theater party?

2. How does Joel come to realize that he fails to impress the crowd with his skit?

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

4. Why does Joel think Stella wants him to stay with her after hearing the news about Miles' death?

5. What does Joel start to feel about Stella when he has a moment alone, after Stella receives a telegram from Miles?

6. Describe the letter Joel sends to Miles.

7. What does Joel say to Stella about new mothers?

8. Why does Joel start to think that putting on a skit is a bad idea?

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

10. How does Miles die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Joel's skit an important aspect of the story? What does the skit represent? What does the skit tell the reader about Joel? How does it drive the events of the story?

Essay Topic 2

How is Hollywood treated in the story? What does working and living in Hollywood seem to do to people? How is the story different if it is set somewhere else.

Essay Topic 3

Explore the story's use of addictions as a motif. What do Nat and Joel seem to be addicted to? How does each one treat their problem? What does the story seem to be saying about addictions.

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