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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Katz reluctantly do?
(a) Gives Paul a refund for his previous stay.
(b) Finds a room for Paul to stay in.
(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.

2. What does Mr. Katz order Jackie and Jamie to do?
(a) Vacate the hotel by this evening.
(b) Apologize to everyone.
(c) Call the cops.
(d) Pay Mr. Morse what is owed to him.

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

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

5. Why does Mr. Morse head back upstairs to his room?
(a) He is not feeling well.
(b) To take a nap.
(c) To get away from the people in the lounge.
(d) He wants to read a book in private.

6. Why is Mr. Morse moving silently down the stairs, waving his arms?
(a) He is choking.
(b) He is trying to entertain the other guests.
(c) He is trying desperately to say something, which will not come out.
(d) He is playing a game.

7. What does Millie remind Jackie?
(a) Jamie is in his room.
(b) The other residents will pitch in to help her.
(c) It is Memorial Day.
(d) Mr. Katz may still help her, if she can avoid annoying him.

8. What is Mr. Morse finally able to say?
(a) He wants the others to join him in his game.
(b) He hopes they had a good laugh.
(c) He has been robbed.
(d) He can finally breathe.

9. Why must Jamie and Mr. Morse be separated?
(a) The fight escalates into a fist fight.
(b) Their checkers game is becoming too heated.
(c) They are becoming too loud.
(d) They are bothering the other residents.

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

11. Why does Jamie retreat to another room?
(a) He is tired.
(b) He is not feeling well.
(c) He does not want to play checkers anymore.
(d) To avoid any more confrontation.

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

13. What does the Girl come back into the lobby and tell Mr. Katz that she finally realizes?
(a) The hotel management is lazy and does not care about its residents.
(b) She has a horrible job and should find a more respectable one.
(c) The hotel management company has no intentions of fixing the hot water problems or the broken elevator in the hopes that the residents will vacate early.
(d) Mr. Katz is trying to steal money from all of them.

14. What does Jackie claim about her car?
(a) It is dirty.
(b) It has been sideswiped.
(c) It has already broken down.
(d) It has been stolen.

15. 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) They are jealous of Jackie.
(c) Realizing that Jackie's plan is woefully ill-fated.
(d) They are tired of listening to Jackie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Paul determined to find his grandfather?

2. What does Mrs. Oxenham admit?

3. What is Mrs. Bellotti doing?

4. What does Jackie claim?

5. What does the Girl do when she learns that the old man had been a train engineer?

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