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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamie have no intentions of doing?
(a) Ending the checkers game.
(b) Telling Mr. Morse that he is sorry.
(c) Fighting again.
(d) Hurting Mr. Morse.

2. What does the Girl suggest to Paul?
(a) There is a possibility that his grandfather stayed in the hotel.
(b) There is a possibility that Millie knew his grandfather.
(c) There is a possibility that Mr. Katz is his grandfather.
(d) There is a possibility that Mr. Morse could be Paul's grandfather.

3. How does Jackie respond?
(a) She says thank you.
(b) She is saddened by the news.
(c) She defiantly defends the choices she has made for herself and Jamie.
(d) She is shocked that the Girl would know so much.

4. Why is Mr. Morse ready for another game of checkers?
(a) His much needed break is over.
(b) He has apologized to Jamie.
(c) He is satisfied that he is the victor in the conflict.
(d) He misses playing checkers.

5. How does the Girl respond to Jackie's question?
(a) The whole incident had been a joke.
(b) Jackie should not laugh at her brother.
(c) Jamie was hit by Mr. Morse.
(d) Jamie asked to have the mascara put on him.

6. What is Mrs. Oxenham, the hotel's day desk clerk and switchboard operator, attempting to deflect?
(a) The complaints from the many residents.
(b) Mr. Morse's whining.
(c) Mr. Katz's questions.
(d) Paul's request to determine whether or not his grandfather had stayed at the hotel a few years ago.

7. What does Mr. Katz reluctantly do?
(a) Finds a room for Paul to stay in.
(b) Gives Paul a refund for his previous stay.
(c) Calls Paul's grandfather.
(d) Pulls out the record books to begin a search for evidence that the elderly Mr. Granger had stayed at the hotel.

8. Why do Millie and the Girl change the subject to the topic of Millie's girlhood home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
(a) Realizing Jackie has told them too much about her life.
(b) Realizing that Jackie's plan is woefully ill-fated.
(c) They are jealous of Jackie.
(d) They are tired of listening to Jackie.

9. What will Paul not accept?
(a) There are no rooms available.
(b) Mr. Katz will not speak with him.
(c) The lack of response.
(d) Mrs. Oxenham is too busy.

10. What did Jackie buy?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) Two plane tickets to California.
(c) A journal to write down all of her secrets.
(d) Twenty acres, sight unseen.

11. What does the Girl do to Mr. Morse?
(a) She follows him.
(b) She tries to talk him out of the closet.
(c) She yells at him.
(d) She taunts him.

12. What is Mrs. Bellotti doing?
(a) Carrying one more box from Horse's room.
(b) Begging Mr. Katz to give Horse one more chance.
(c) Complaining about her son's problems.
(d) Calling Horse to come help move out his things.

13. How does Jackie continue to annoy Mr. Katz?
(a) She is constantly talking to him.
(b) She keeps asking for him to be a co-signer for her.
(c) By sitting too close to him.
(d) By spreading out paperwork that she is working on.

14. For what does Millie try to intercede on Paul's behalf?
(a) Some privacy.
(b) Some peace and quiet.
(c) A break from looking for his grandfather.
(d) A new room.

15. Where does Mr. Morse confusedly retreat?
(a) To Mr. Katz's office.
(b) To the bathroom.
(c) To the broom closet.
(d) To his room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Girl do with a tube of mascara from her purse?

2. What does Mrs. Oxenham yell at Paul?

3. How does Millie know this to be true?

4. What does Jackie share with the others in the room?

5. Why does Jamie retreat to another room?

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