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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 does Amanda tell Laura that Amanda won't answer the door when Tom gets home?
(a) Amanda hates answering the door
(b) So that Laura can see Jim
(c) Amanda will be in the bath
(d) Amanda will be busy

2. What does Jim say about Candlelight?
(a) It gives him a headache
(b) It's his favorite
(c) It's eerie
(d) It is romantic

3. What does Tom say is the longest space between two spaces?
(a) Life
(b) The past
(c) Time
(d) Harsh words

4. What does he ask Laura for?
(a) Gum
(b) Cigarette
(c) Pillow
(d) Blanket

5. What did the brace on Laura's leg sound like in her mind?
(a) Train
(b) Explosion
(c) Thunder
(d) A bomb

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim say is one of the sights in Chicago?

2. What is Amanda making the dressing to go with?

3. What name does Jim call Emily Meisenbach, the girl he dated in high school?

4. What symptoms did Amanda say she had while she was sick the spring she met her husband?

5. What type of girl does Jim think that Laura is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jim advise Laura to remember about getting to know people and being shy?

2. Why does she tell Jim that he should look at the fuse box and not Tom?

3. What does Jim stat might have happened to the light bill Amanda gave to Tom?

4. What things does Tom say described what Jim was like and what he did in high school?

5. What does Jim tell Laura about being old-fashioned?

6. What does Amanda tell Jim he has been good for?

7. Where does Amanda tell Tom to go when he announces he is leaving?

8. What was it that made Jim and Tom friends at the warehouse?

9. Why is it that Tom couldn't leave Laura behind?

10. Why does Amanda say that she is rejuvenated that night?

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