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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jackie do when she finally sees Jamie's blackened eye?
(a) She demands to know the circumstances of the injury.
(b) She wipes off the mascara.
(c) She yells at him for acting so childishly.
(d) She begins to laugh.

2. For what does Millie apologize?
(a) Being rude.
(b) Not remembering Paul's grandfather herself.
(c) Not being more helpful.
(d) Not having lived at the Hotel at the time Paul's grandfather had stayed there.

3. What does Jackie share with the others in the room?
(a) Her intentions to move to California and become a movie star.
(b) A secret she has been keeping for ten years.
(c) Her intention to raise organic foods on a plot of land that she purchased in Utah.
(d) A bottle of wine.

4. What occurs on the other side of the room?
(a) Jamie and Mr. Morse complain about the hotel falling apart around them.
(b) Jamie and Mr. Morse are playing checkers.
(c) Jamie and Mr. Morse get into a fight over the football game.
(d) Jamie and Mr. Morse begin to fight about their checkers game.

5. What does Mrs. Oxenham admit?
(a) She is tired of all the complaints.
(b) She cannot possibly remember everyone who has been at the hotel.
(c) She does not enjoy her job.
(d) She wishes Mr. Morse would move out.

6. With what is the Girl enraptured?
(a) The city of Baton Rouge.
(b) The mention of the kind men.
(c) The glimpse into Millie's past.
(d) The way Millie tells her story.

7. To what does Paul turn his focus?
(a) A beautiful girl sitting in the lobby.
(b) The football game on the television.
(c) The commotion in the lobby.
(d) The game of checkers being played by Mr. Morse and Jamie.

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 does the Girl do when she learns that the old man had been a train engineer?
(a) She asks to meet him with Paul.
(b) She is ecstatic and demands the chance to talk to the old man, when he is found.
(c) She calls him.
(d) She wants to interview him when Paul allows it.

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

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

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

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

14. 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 asked to have the mascara put on him.
(d) Jamie was hit by Mr. Morse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Millie know this to be true?

2. What does Mr. Katz do to Jackie?

3. What does Paul agree to do?

4. Why does Mr. Katz confront Jackie?

5. How did this come about?

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