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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 begin to fight about their checkers game.
(c) Jamie and Mr. Morse are playing checkers.
(d) Jamie and Mr. Morse get into a fight over the football game.

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

5. Why is Paul determined to find his grandfather?
(a) He was always closest to his grandfather.
(b) He wants to take care of the elderly gentleman himself, now that he is out of confinement.
(c) He wants to bring his grandfather back to live with him and his parents.
(d) He wants to find a good nursing home for his grandfather.

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

7. What does Jackie claim?
(a) She fixed Mr. Morse's window and does not know anything about any stolen goods.
(b) She is only a nursing assistant.
(c) She does not want to help.
(d) She is not in the mood for games.

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

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

10. 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. Katz's questions.
(c) Paul's request to determine whether or not his grandfather had stayed at the hotel a few years ago.
(d) Mr. Morse's whining.

11. What does Mr. Katz finally order Jackie to do?
(a) Leave him alone.
(b) Move her things to another table.
(c) Go to her room.
(d) Move out.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jackie do when she finally sees Jamie's blackened eye?

2. To what does Paul turn his focus?

3. Why can Mrs. Oxenham be of no further help to Paul?

4. Why is Mr. Morse moving silently down the stairs, waving his arms?

5. Why does the Girl rattle off an extensive list of all the cities that she has visited in the United States?

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