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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Paul react to this news?
(a) He is crestfallen.
(b) He is nervous.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He is excited.

2. What does the Girl yell through the door to Mr. Morse?
(a) Jamie still wants to play checkers.
(b) Jamie is sorry.
(c) Jamie misses you.
(d) Jamie has a black eye.

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

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

5. What does Jackie share with the others in the room?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(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) Her intentions to move to California and become a movie star.

6. What does the Girl do with a tube of mascara from her purse?
(a) She tells Mr. Morse she has a gift for him.
(b) She applies mascara to her eyelashes.
(c) She puts the mascara on Jamie and dresses him like a woman.
(d) She proceeds to blacken the area around one of Jamie's eyes.

7. What does Millie suddenly stand and declare?
(a) She is moving.
(b) She is tired of all of the guests.
(c) Paul's grandfather is alive.
(d) The hotel is her home, and she does not want to be evicted.

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

9. Why do Paul's parents not let his grandfather live with them?
(a) He is too difficult to deal with.
(b) They do not love him.
(c) He is not mentally stable.
(d) They do not have the room.

10. What does Paul share with the Girl?
(a) He is from a very wealthy, kind family.
(b) A sandwich.
(c) He has been in a workhouse for the past two years for selling marijuana in college.
(d) He has been looking for his grandfather for five years.

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

12. How has the management company fulfilled its duty?
(a) By providing a roof over their heads.
(b) By providing one-month eviction notices to the residents.
(c) By lessening the cost of rent.
(d) By having the residents sign a waiver stating they will make their own repairs.

13. What does Paul agree to do?
(a) Have the Girl give him her address.
(b) Introduce the Girl to him.
(c) Bring his grandfather to the Girl.
(d) Let the Girl call his grandfather.

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

15. What does Jackie say to protect Jamie?
(a) Her mother would not approve of this.
(b) He is not very smart.
(c) His health is not good.
(d) He is shy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Katz reluctantly do?

3. How does Millie know this to be true?

4. What does Mr. Katz order Jackie and Jamie to do?

5. Where does Mr. Morse confusedly retreat?

(see the answer keys)

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