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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Dr. Copeland supposed to do on August 21, 1939?
(a) Move in with Portia.
(b) Take a vacation.
(c) Move to his in-law's farm.
(d) Retire.

3. 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) All the answers are correct.
(c) He is told not to make trouble.
(d) Willie is scared.

4. Why does Harry say he is leaving town?
(a) Because he wantsd to marry Mick and she says no.
(b) Because he can make better money in another town.
(c) Because if he stays his mother will figure out what they did.
(d) Because he is afraid he'll go to jail for what he did.

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

6. Who is the only person in Mick's "inside" room?
(a) Carol Lombard.
(b) Bubber.
(c) Her father.
(d) Mr. Singer.

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

8. Who finds Mr. Singer's dead body?
(a) Mick Kelly.
(b) Biff Brannon.
(c) Portia.
(d) Mr. Kelly.

9. How do Harry and Mick get the the Girl Scout camp?
(a) Harry borrows his mother's car.
(b) They walk.
(c) They ride a bicycle.
(d) The bus.

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

11. What does Biff keep in the room downstairs?
(a) Old photographs of Alice.
(b) His files, a rocking chair, and his mandolin.
(c) His files and newspapers.
(d) A radio and a rocking chair.

12. Why has Portia made arrangements against her father's wishes?
(a) He is getting too sick and need a hospital.
(b) He is too contrary for her to handle.
(c) He can't get out of bed.
(d) They can not pay for his house and take care of him.

13. What changes about Mr. Singer after he learns the news at the asylum?
(a) He changes from mild-mannered to irritable and cold.
(b) He can't stop crying.
(c) He leaves everything behind and goes home.
(d) He picks a fight with the staff at the asylum.

14. What happens when Mick talked to Mr. Singer about getting a job?
(a) He writes her a note saying she should take it.
(b) Nothing, he didn't understand.
(c) He smiles.
(d) He nods after she tells him about it.

15. While Mr. Singer is on the train, what is he thinking about his four frequent visitors?
(a) That he wishes they'd learn sign language so he could talk with them.
(b) That he doesn't understand most of what they say.
(c) That it is good to get away from them for a while.
(d) That he is going to miss them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jake decide to go see after he remembers Mr. Singer was dead?

2. What did Mr. Singer find out when he gets to the asylum?

3. How is Mick feeling at the end of Part 3, Chapter 3?

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

5. Where does Mick go after work on August 21?

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