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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 is Ruth waiting for an opening to tell Harold?
(a) His children's school is being picketed.
(b) His grocery stores are being sued.
(c) His parents refuse to see him any more.
(d) The news interviewed her.

2. Why is Paul attracted to Ginny?
(a) Her outward display of strength.
(b) Her well-developed sense of humor.
(c) Her amazing beauty.
(d) Her mind and exotic nature.

3. Where were the students given passports to go?
(a) America.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Japan.

4. What subject did Thomas love in college?
(a) Marketing.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Economics.

5. What do the Redeemer's friends say about the Bible?
(a) It does not talk about the end of time.
(b) There is no true Bible.
(c) Everything in it is false.
(d) They should be reading it and respecting it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator value Ginny?

2. What does the narrator like to do but not do?

3. How long did Charles work for Johnson?

4. What does Charles ask Johnson that Plinkett witnessed?

5. About what does the woman who sits next to the Fosters complain?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Mrs. Richards bets a woman is fattening Louis up for the fry, about what does Louis think?

2. What does Charles do that is unlike Detroit-born mechanics and what does he think will happen as a result of this?

3. What does Paul do after months of silence at the mental hospital?

4. How does Leon describe his landlady?

5. What does Clair talk about during her part of the dinner?

6. What are the Foster's doing because it was recommended and because they are tired of tourism?

7. What does the group of storytellers who Ginny joined consider themselves and what happens to change this?

8. How does Charles seem to others and what does this lead people to think about the events that lead to his trial?

9. What does the narrator say great literature has given way to?

10. Describe the character Clair as seen through Louis's eyes.

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