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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry ask Mick to do to get away and relieve the heat?
(a) Go to the YMCA pool.
(b) Go to the country club pool.
(c) Swim in the river.
(d) To go on a picnic and swimming.

2. Who does Jake decide to go see after he remembers Mr. Singer was dead?
(a) Biff Brannon.
(b) Simms.
(c) Dr. Copeland.
(d) Portia.

3. What was wrong with Etta Kelly?
(a) She has bad cramps.
(b) She has influenza.
(c) She has pnemonia.
(d) She is sick with a diseased ovary.

4. What does Harry confess to Mick in Part 2, Chapter 9?
(a) He wanted to be a communist.
(b) He doesn't like his new job at the New York Cafe.
(c) He wanted to assassinate Hitler.
(d) He wanted to go to college.

5. What does Dr. Copeland lack the strength to do?
(a) To sit up and speak in a loud voice.
(b) To jump off the wagon and go home again.
(c) To shout his feelings to the world.
(d) To crawl into the back of the wagon for a nap.

6. Where is Antonapoulos when Mr. Singer goes to visit him at the asylum?
(a) In the bathroom.
(b) In a private room.
(c) Outside.
(d) In the infirmary.

7. What does Mr. Singer buy his four guests for Christmas?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A chess game.
(c) A fruit basket.
(d) A radio.

8. What happens when Jake asks for the names of the guards that hurt Willie?
(a) Portia explains Willie agreed not to do certain things.
(b) He is told not to make trouble.
(c) All the answers are correct.
(d) Willie is scared.

9. Where is Jake going to go after leaving town?
(a) He doesn't know, except that he'll stay in the South.
(b) He is going to Atlanta.
(c) He is going north.
(d) He is going to go to Texas.

10. Where do Jake and Mr. Singer go in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 13?
(a) Portia's house.
(b) Kelly's house.
(c) The New York Cafe.
(d) Dr. Copeland's house.

11. What does Mick suggest she and Harry do before they return to the meal?
(a) Swing from a rope.
(b) Build a raft.
(c) Swim naked.
(d) Dive in the water.

12. Who starts the problem that Jake Blount is running away from?
(a) A black boy and a white boy.
(b) All the answers are correct.
(c) His boss, who tried to close early.
(d) The police, who were shutting down the place.

13. What does Mick dream of being when she is twenty?
(a) A singer.
(b) A popular writer.
(c) A mother.
(d) A world-famous composer.

14. Who does Dr. Copeland decide he needs to talk to about his son?
(a) The pharmacist, Marshall Nicolls.
(b) His other sons.
(c) Mr. Singer.
(d) The superior court judge.

15. What does Biff do to the bedroom after Alice dies?
(a) He remodels it.
(b) He keeps it exactly the same.
(c) He scrubbs the floor.
(d) He paints the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jake Blount running in the opening of Part 3, Chapter 2?

2. What does Dr. Copeland say when Jake enters his bedroom?

3. Where does Biff go during his Sunday break?

4. What gift does he give Antonapoulos?

5. What happens when Mick talked to Mr. Singer about getting a job?

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