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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mick want to tell Mr. Singer?
(a) She wants to marry him.
(b) She loves him.
(c) She likes visiting him.
(d) She wants to play chess with him.

2. Where does Mick go after work on August 21?
(a) The library.
(b) The New York Cafe.
(c) Home.
(d) The movies.

3. What happens to Dr. Copeland while he is at the courthouse?
(a) He is told to go home.
(b) He gets ill and passes out.
(c) He sees no one and goes home.
(d) He is beaten by the sheriff.

4. Where is Jake Blount running as he tries to escape his problem?
(a) Out of town.
(b) Home.
(c) To the Kelly house to see Mr. Singer.
(d) To the New York Cafe.

5. In the narration of Part 2, Chapter 14, how are the strange feelings Mick is having described?
(a) It is like she is waiting for something, but didn't know what.
(b) It is like she wants to get her own apartment.
(c) It is like she missed Harry and wanted to go find him.
(d) It is like she is tired all the time.

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

7. What does Biff Brannon find in the bathroom closet?
(a) Alice's make-up.
(b) His wife's perfume.
(c) Toilet cleaner.
(d) A bottle of pain pills.

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

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

10. By May, what does Mick spend an obsessive amount of time doing?
(a) Following, watching, or visiting Mr. Singer.
(b) Looking for Harry to tell him she is okay.
(c) Working at the New York Cafe.
(d) Swimming, because it is so hot.

11. What does Dr. Copeland tell his father-in-law he believed in?
(a) Equality for all people.
(b) Justice for negroes.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) Liberty and justice for all.

12. What does Mr. Singer do to occupy himself when he misses Antonapoulos?
(a) He gets a part time job.
(b) He walks for miles around town.
(c) He listens to the radio.
(d) He starts a hobby.

13. What does Jake say when Mr. Singer tells him about Willie?
(a) He says that it is a darn shame.
(b) He says the boy must have deserved it.
(c) He says he knows a good lawyer.
(d) He says there is something that could be done.

14. What does Mick Kelly write in her notebook?
(a) A diary.
(b) Short stories.
(c) Poems.
(d) Music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds Mr. Singer's dead body?

2. When Jake asks Willie to tell him what happened, what does Willie say?

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

4. What does Jake observe happening around the Sunny Dixie?

5. Why is Mick always asked to work overtime?

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