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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 2, Chapter 5, what does Spareribs bring with him to the Kelly house?
(a) A Parcheesi game.
(b) Candy.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A rifle.

2. How does Mr. Singer communicate with Antonapoulos?
(a) Photographs.
(b) They can't communicate.
(c) He writes notes.
(d) Sign language

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

4. What does Dr. Benedict Copeland do in the evening when he doesn't have patients?
(a) He writes letters.
(b) He sings.
(c) He plays harmonica.
(d) He reads.

5. Why is Dr. Copeland so interested in Mr. Singer?
(a) Because he never knew a person who was deaf and mute.
(b) Because he he curious about the other man.
(c) Because Mr. Singer paid his daughter well for ironing his shirts.
(d) Because he has a deaf child as a patient.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jake Blount feel when he is at home?

2. What kind of relationship does Brannon have with his wife, Alice?

3. While outside on the porch with his friend, Spareribs, what does Bugger do to Baby?

4. What puzzles Biff Brannon so that he thinks about it late at night?

5. What is the Sunny Dixie Show?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused the riot at the Sunny Dixie Show?

2. Why is Portia so determined that her father should live with her grandfather and other brothers when he is so different from them?

3. Why does Mick sit on the stairs for such a long time?

4. Why did Singer suddenly go away during July without warning?

5. What changed about Biff Brannon's feelings for Mick?

6. What do we learn about the Kellys financial situation in Part 2, Chapter 9?

7. What was Mick's theory about the younger kids in a family?

8. What did Doctor Copeland talk to Mister Singer about when he visited in Part 2, Chapter 3?

9. Why did Biff Brannon seem to be closer to his wife than they were when she was alive?

10. What had changed about Mick Kelly as she sat in the restaurant on the evening of August 21, 1939?

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