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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 does Nick do for the Italian soldiers?
(a) Build morale.
(b) Talks to the wounded.
(c) Buries the dead.
(d) Delivers messages.

2. What does Mr. Frazer spend most of his free time doing?
(a) Reading literature.
(b) Taking long walks.
(c) Studying for school.
(d) Listening to the radio.

3. Where are the Fontans from?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

4. Who pays the matador's bills while he is out of the country?
(a) His mother.
(b) His wife.
(c) His tenants.
(d) The narrator.

5. Where does Nick make love to Bill's sister?
(a) In the woods.
(b) On a train.
(c) At her house.
(d) In a school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do David and his dog find in "An African Story"?

2. What does the man in "Get a Seeing Eye Dog" ask his wife to do?

3. Who is the woman in "One Reader Writes" writing a letter to?

4. Who runs away with Nick in "The Last Good Country"?

5. How does Mr. Harris' father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Mr. Harris is eating at a train station restaurant?

2. What causes an attack on the house Edwin is living in in "Landscape with Figures"?

3. What does Nick do for the Italian army after he has been discharged?

4. What does Edwin do when he suspects that Luis is a Fascist?

5. What does Al ask Edwin the night before he heads off to battle?

6. How does Cayetano spend his days in the hospital?

7. How does Mr. Wheeler keep contact with his son, and how do Stevie's doctor's feel about his progress in the mental institution?

8. What happens to the three men who Harry refuses to take to the U.S. one day?

9. Why does the man in "Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog" ask his wife to leave him?

10. What is the woman writing to the medical column about in "One Reader Writes"?

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