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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of house does Dr. Copeland live in?
(a) A frame house painted pristine white.
(b) A clapboard house.
(c) A brick and stucco home.
(d) He lives in an apartment above his clinic.

2. In the summer when Mick takes her brothers for walks what does she think about?
(a) Snow, skating with Mr. Singer, and saving him when he falls through the ice.
(b) Mountain climbing in Switzerland.
(c) Dancing with Carole Lombard and Toscanini.
(d) Ice skating with her brother Bill.

3. What is Antonapoulos's job?
(a) Selling candy on the sidewalk.
(b) He does not work.
(c) Making candy in his cousin's fruit store.
(d) A great chef in an expensive restaurant.

4. What does Antonapoulos do once a week?
(a) Go out dancing.
(b) Invite his cousin to dinner.
(c) Have his photograph taken.
(d) Go out for steak.

5. What does Lucille tell Biff not to do?
(a) Marry again.
(b) Think backwards.
(c) Wear blinders.
(d) Mourn.

6. Where does Jake go with the fruit basket it purchased.
(a) To work at the Sunny Dixie Show.
(b) He found a picnic bench.
(c) To visit Biff Brannon.
(d) To visit Mr. Singer.

7. What does Portia tell her father about Willie?
(a) Willie eloped with a woman Portia didn't like.
(b) Willie ran off with the wife of another man.
(c) Willie got in a fight and cut a man with a razor.
(d) Willie was beaten up and in the hospital.

8. According to Dr. Copeland, what is wrong with the best written essay?
(a) There was no name on it.
(b) There was too much hatred in it.
(c) There were too many wild notions.
(d) There were too many mistakes in grammar.

9. What does Jake ask the three men sitting on the step?
(a) If they had jobs.
(b) If they knew a good fishing hole.
(c) If they ever rode the flying-jinny.
(d) If they worked at the mill.

10. What happens to Singer after Antonapoulos was gone?
(a) He relives memories of time with his friend.
(b) He walks and walks at night.
(c) He dreams of his friend Antonapoulos.
(d) All the answers are correct.

11. Who does Portia say her father is?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A black judge.
(d) A black doctor in town.

12. What happens to Biff Brannon on October 8?
(a) He starts a new business.
(b) His wife dies.
(c) He goes to see Mr. Singer.
(d) He changes into a new pair of pants.

13. What puzzles Biff Brannon so that he thinks about it late at night?
(a) Lucille.
(b) Mick Kelly.
(c) Mr. Singer.
(d) Jake Blount.

14. What magazine does Mick look at when she went to the library?
(a) National Geographic.
(b) True Story.
(c) Boy's Life.
(d) Time.

15. What did Mick do in the afternoon after her conversation with Portia in the kitchen?
(a) Went to the YWCA.
(b) Went outside to play.
(c) Paced the hallways of the house.
(d) Walked up and down the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mick doing in her brother's room that upset her?

2. When did Jake Blount arrive in town?

3. What does Brannon carry downstairs and keep behind the cash register?

4. What does Charles Parker, Antonapoulos's cousin do?

5. Who were the four people who often visited Mr. Singer?

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