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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yank say he has forgotten?
(a) Real life.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Himself.
(d) His women.

2. What does Paddy say the engineer was pointing at them like?
(a) A professor in a musuem.
(b) A slavedriver on a plantation.
(c) A spaceman on Mars.
(d) A man in a circus.

3. What does the author say the bodies of the men shine with?
(a) Oil.
(b) Sweat.
(c) Soap.
(d) Laughter.

4. What does Paddy say Mildred was dressed like when she came into the stokehole?
(a) A cherub.
(b) A white swan.
(c) A white quane.
(d) A heavenly angel.

5. What do the others respect about Yank?
(a) His kindness.
(b) His superior strength.
(c) His gentleness.
(d) His superior intellect.

6. What does Paddy say he wished Yank did to Mildred?
(a) Slapped her.
(b) Kissed her.
(c) Growled at her.
(d) Brained her.

7. What animal do the men say the dirt will make spot on Yank like?
(a) A leopard.
(b) A cougar.
(c) A dalmation.
(d) A zebra.

8. What does Mildred tell the second engineer she dislikes?
(a) Nature.
(b) Summer.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

9. What does the author compare the mens' throats to?
(a) Opera singers.
(b) Phonograph horns.
(c) Ship whistles.
(d) Sopranos.

10. Which of Paddy's words do the men repeat?
(a) Blue.
(b) Love.
(c) Girl.
(d) Fallen.

11. What nationality does Yank say beer is for?
(a) Dutch.
(b) German.
(c) Czech.
(d) British.

12. What does Aunt tell Mildred she loathes?
(a) Madness.
(b) Students.
(c) Unintelligence.
(d) Deformity.

13. Where does the coal stick to the men?
(a) The hair.
(b) Their ears.
(c) Their eyes.
(d) Their nails.

14. What kind of expression does the coal dust give the men?
(a) A sinister expression.
(b) A gothic expression.
(c) A comedic expression.
(d) A puppet expression.

15. What word Yank uses do the men repeat?
(a) Think.
(b) Work.
(c) Fangs.
(d) Piebald.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Yank hurl at the door when Mildred leaves?

2. Who turns Yank to stone?

3. What does Yank say is the matter with him?

4. What does Paddy say the engineer told Mildred they roast their workers in?

5. What does Yank think Mildred called him?

(see the answer keys)

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