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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Millie proud?
(a) Her work as a waitress.
(b) President Calvin Coolidge always requested to sit in her section of tables when he visited the establishment.
(c) Her visit to the White House to see President Calvin Coolidge.
(d) The friends she has made over the years at the Hotel Baltimore.

2. What does Bill suggest that Mrs. Bellotti visit?
(a) The coffee shop on the corner.
(b) Mr. Katz's home.
(c) The police station.
(d) A therapist.

3. What does Mr. Katz tell Mr. Morse?
(a) Some of the residents have been complaining about Mr. Morse's vocal exercises.
(b) Some of the residents have been complaining about Mr. Morse's complaints.
(c) He needs to go back to his room, and fix his own window.
(d) To stop complaining or leave.

4. What does Bill mention is being torn down?
(a) The Hotel Baltimore.
(b) A restaurant nearby.
(c) A local hotel called the Pioneer.
(d) The train station.

5. What does Bill do?
(a) He is the architect.
(b) He is the hotel's manager.
(c) He mans the check-in desk and switchboard.
(d) He is a hotel guest.

6. About what does April Green complain?
(a) Her lack of sleep.
(b) The dingy hotel.
(c) The lack of hot water this morning.
(d) Her difficult customers.

7. What does Bill suggest that the Girl do?
(a) Distribute the mail in the residents' mailboxes.
(b) Get a better job.
(c) Send wake-up calls to the guests.
(d) Go back to her room.

8. What must Jackie do because of this purchase?
(a) She needs to move in within the week.
(b) She must hang up her clothes before they become wrinkled.
(c) She must buy insurance on the phone.
(d) She cannot get the plates until she purchases auto insurance.

9. Who enters the hotel lobby?
(a) Two more hotel residents.
(b) Two police officers.
(c) Four more hotel residents.
(d) Two neighbors.

10. Why is Mr. Morse getting a cold?
(a) He has allergies.
(b) The window in his room will not close all the way.
(c) He has been around several sick people.
(d) He visited a school earlier that week.

11. Why is this distracting?
(a) The noise shook the building.
(b) The mail was overflowing.
(c) She is curious who is at the door.
(d) He is outraged.

12. What distracts April from heading back to her room upstairs?
(a) The arrival of Mr. Morse.
(b) The doorbell.
(c) The mail in her mailbox.
(d) A loud noise.

13. Who was the figure of a shy woman, who never sat, but just stood at the doorway to watch the restaurant activities?
(a) The Girl's mother.
(b) A woman Millie has worked with.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A guest that visits the Hotel Baltimore regularly.

14. What does Jackie then try to do to Bill?
(a) Warm up to him.
(b) Flirt with him.
(c) Tease him.
(d) Take over his job.

15. About what does Mr. Katz inquire?
(a) The eviction notices.
(b) Bill's work.
(c) The boy sleeping in the lobby.
(d) Mr. Morse's problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bill trying to maintain among all these distractions?

2. What about the hotel has diminished?

3. Who descends the hotel steps and greets Bill and the Girl?

4. What is Jackie's problem?

5. How long has the boy been waiting for Mr. Katz?

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