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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Laura tells Amanda she couldn't handle looking at?
(a) Her brother's tears
(b) The neighbors
(c) The suffering look on Amanda's face
(d) Her classmates

2. What is it that Amanda claims has made her a witch?
(a) Her Poverty
(b) Her Lonliness
(c) Her Political Ambitions
(d) Her Devotion

3. What is it that Laura had that caused the nickname Blue Roses?
(a) A Rash in the shape of a flower
(b) Influenza
(c) Mumps
(d) Pleurosis

4. What does Amanda want Laura to do when she calls her from the kitchen?
(a) Play a record
(b) Help her with the cleaning
(c) Dance around the room
(d) Make a wish on the moon

5. When does Amanda tell Tom she will speak to him?
(a) When he appologizes
(b) Never
(c) When he is married
(d) When he brings home more money

6. What does Amanda say will happen if Tom stays out to late?
(a) He will have a good time
(b) Someone might get hurt
(c) He will jeopardize his job
(d) They will worry

7. What does Laura say when Amanda announces Laura is going to find someone to marry?
(a) That she is to old
(b) That she is to ugly
(c) That she is to poor
(d) That she is a cripple

8. What meeting was Amanda supposed to have been at?
(a) Local theater club
(b) Women's liberation meeting
(c) Book club meeting
(d) D.A.R. meeting

9. What is the young man's name that Tom invites over for dinner?
(a) Jamed Delaney O'Connor
(b) Jarred Davies O'Maley
(c) Shawn Thornton
(d) Fredrick Martin Maclintock

10. How big is the moon that night?
(a) Can't see the moon for the clouds
(b) Small sliver
(c) Full
(d) No moon

11. What is Laura doing when she hears her mother approaching?
(a) Reading
(b) Studying her typing
(c) Writing a letter
(d) Washing and polishing her collection of glass

12. What is the one thing about Tom's father that Amanda wishes he would try and emulate?
(a) Taking care of his appearance
(b) His wit
(c) His charm
(d) His walk

13. In her story how many gentlemen callers does Amanda tell her children she received in one night?
(a) Seventeen
(b) Eight
(c) Twelve
(d) Twenty-two

14. What does Tom tell Amanda he did at work that makes her so happy?
(a) Invited over a man for Laura
(b) Took a new position
(c) Quit
(d) Got a raise

15. Tom states that in memory everything seems to happen to what?
(a) Be boring
(b) Music
(c) Be black and white
(d) Fade in and out

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amanda do with Laura's typewriter keyboard diagram?

2. How does the conversation end between Amanda and Ida Scott regarding the magazine subscription?

3. What does Amanda say Bates Cutrere was carrying the night he died?

4. What are the two reasons Amanda suggests would stop gentlemen callers from coming to see Laura that night?

5. What is Laura's explanation for the lack of gentlemen callers?

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