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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. Why did Homer move to California?
(a) Pursue an acting career
(b) Doctor's suggestion
(c) A new job
(d) Buy a winery

2. Why did Tod get hired?
(a) Good drawings done at school
(b) He didn't ask for much money
(c) He knew the boss
(d) His father owns the studio

3. Where does Homer take his walks?
(a) To the library
(b) To the park
(c) Past Faye and Harry's apartment
(d) To the pet shop

4. What does Tod learn about Faye that he is relieved to know?
(a) She is not one of Mrs. Jenning's girls
(b) She has broken up with her boyfriend
(c) She is getting out of the movie business
(d) She has asked him to dinner at her apartment

5. What does Faye tell Homer?
(a) She is still hungry
(b) She thinks he is cute
(c) Her life story
(d) Her plans to be a movie star

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Homer see in the woman's hotel room?

2. What does Homer do for Harry and Faye?

3. What is the content of the note?

4. How does Harry Greener meet Homer?

5. How does Harry supplement his income?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Tod think he might be able to get closer to Faye?

2. What happens between Homer and the woman at the hotel?

3. How does Faye react when Tod tries to get closer to her?

4. Why does Tod spend so much time at the Greeners' apartment?

5. What has Tod learned in his relatively brief time in Hollywood?

6. How does Tod come to know Homer Simpson?

7. How does the author begin the story with interest so that the setting and time period are different from what is originally thought?

8. How does Tod's new friendship with Abe foreshadow what will come for Tod?

9. What progress is Tod making at getting closer to Faye?

10. Why is Tod so energized to be in Hollywood?

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