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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book addresses a group of young people commonly called ________________.
(a) Generation X.
(b) The Beat Generation.
(c) Hippies.
(d) Yuppies.

2. Stofsky often feels unloved and freakish due to ______________________.
(a) his mother's commitment to an insane asylum.
(b) his continual rejection by women.
(c) his inability to get published.
(d) his lack of true friends.

3. Which girl does Gene take away from the party?
(a) Bonnie.
(b) Karen.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Lauren.

4. Both Paul and Gene have written __________________.
(a) novels.
(b) a thesis.
(c) Letters to the Editor.
(d) short stories.

5. What advice did Arthur give Gene about his novel?
(a) He should abandon it.
(b) He should make a couple of edits.
(c) He should cut out part of it.
(d) He should send it to the publisher.

6. What is the time period for GO?
(a) Late 1980s.
(b) Late 1960s.
(c) Early 1950s.
(d) Mid 1970s.

7. Why do Christine and Gene fight at the party?
(a) He did not remember her birthday.
(b) He wants to go home early.
(c) He is flirting with other girls.
(d) He is smoking marijuana.

8. After Gene and Christine leave the bar, Paul and Kathryn discuss ________________________.
(a) how they would feel if one of them had an affair.
(b) holiday plans.
(c) their finances.
(d) Paul's manuscript.

9. The reversal of traditional roles in a marriage is _________________ for Paul and Kathryn.
(a) disastrous.
(b) fantastic.
(c) working.
(d) stressful.

10. What does Waters do to Stofsky's wristwatch?
(a) Steals it.
(b) Smashes it.
(c) Sells it.
(d) Throws it in the commode.

11. Kathryn is _________________ older than Paul.
(a) one year.
(b) eighteen months.
(c) two years.
(d) six months.

12. Waters raves that time is a/an __________________.
(a) despot.
(b) mistress.
(c) thief.
(d) illusion.

13. In what state does Hart Kennedy live?
(a) New York.
(b) Maine.
(c) California.
(d) Arizona.

14. What literary device does the author use when describing the sight of the big man beating up the little man over a woman outside a bar?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allegory.

15. What nationality is Kathryn?
(a) Italian.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arthur is devoted to whom?

2. To whose apartment does Paul go to later that night?

3. Where does Paul's wife work?

4. To whom is Paul writing a love letter?

5. When Paul cannot concentrate on his book, he goes out because he is ______________.

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