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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 did Esmond plan to do in New Orleans?
(a) Write a book.
(b) Hold political lectures.
(c) Attend university.
(d) Work as a bartender.

2. What newspaper did Kay Graham's father own?
(a) The Daily Hampshire Gazette.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) The New York Post.
(d) The New York Times.

3. How did Esmond think that he and Jessica could make money in America?
(a) By lecturing on English life.
(b) By gambling.
(c) By selling homemade jam.
(d) By working for a newspaper.

4. What did Jessica's father threaten would happen if she did not return from Spain to England?
(a) Jessica's father would marry her off to an old man.
(b) Esmond would go to prison.
(c) Jessica would be disinherited.
(d) Esmond would be abandoned by his family.

5. How much money did Esmond borrow from the Meyers to invest in a bar?
(a) Fifteen hundred dollars.
(b) One thousand dollars.
(c) Five hundred dollars.
(d) Five thousand dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Esmond find a job doing in Washington?

2. How did Esmond feel about his job in Washington?

3. Who informed Jessica and Esmond of some American idioms?

4. Where did Jessica and Esmond stay at a small cottage?

5. Where did Jessica find work in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom did Jessica and Esmond ask for permission to marry?

2. Why did Jessica and Esmond leave Spain?

3. What did Jessica and Esmond decide to do after Esmond lost his job?

4. What happened to Jessica and Esmond's daughter?

5. Who was Mr. Donahue, and what did he do?

6. How did Jessica and Esmond spend their first days in New York?

7. What was the situation in Europe in 1939?

8. How did Esmond come to be part owner of a restaurant in Miami?

9. Why did Esmond and Jessica decide to go to Washington, D.C.?

10. What did the Durrs ask Jessica and Esmond about when they visited for dinner?

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