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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Li'l Bit and Peck have a celebration dinner at in 1968?
(a) A fancy restaurant in Baltimore.
(b) An elegant New York restaurant.
(c) At his home.
(d) An inn on the Eastern shore.

2. What is Peck's favorite car?
(a) '55 Bel Air.
(b) '60 Corvette.
(c) '56 Bel Air Sports Coupe.
(d) '58 Rambler.

3. Where is the location of the first setting?
(a) Maryland.
(b) New York.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. What does the night of the first scene make a middle-aged man with a mortgage feel like?
(a) A frisky young man.
(b) A kid.
(c) An old man.
(d) A country boy.

5. When does Li'l Bit begin moving away from the Men, Sex, and Women scene?
(a) When the driver's education voice speaks.
(b) When Big Papa enters the scene.
(c) When the singing starts.
(d) When her mother and grandmother argue.

6. What represents the car in the first scene?
(a) Two chairs facing forward.
(b) Two people standing with knees bent.
(c) A car windshield.
(d) A cardboard cutout that looks like a car.

7. According to Mother, when a lady drinks, she should never get what?
(a) Gay.
(b) Drink like a man.
(c) Sloppy.
(d) Tipsy.

8. How does Li'l Bit hold the steering wheel?
(a) With one hand.
(b) With her knees.
(c) At the nine and three o'clock position.
(d) At the eight and two o'clock position.

9. What gender does Li'l Bit decide to use when referring to the car?
(a) Both genders.
(b) Male.
(c) Female.
(d) Neither gender; it's an inanimate object.

10. Li'l Bit refers her first lesson as the "initiation into a boy's first love." What is this first love?
(a) Toys.
(b) Cars.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Sex.

11. What play does the following line come from: "The quality of mercy is not strained"?
(a) Merchant of Venice.
(b) Much Ado About Nothing.
(c) Taming of the Shrew.
(d) Hamlet.

12. Who is taking Li'l Bit to the prom?
(a) Greg.
(b) Peck.
(c) Claude.
(d) No one; she's not going to prom.

13. Who does Li'l Bit meet on the long bus ride to Upstate New York?
(a) A relative that she hasn't seen for some time.
(b) An older man who seduces her.
(c) A boy she goes to school with.
(d) A senior from Walt Whitman High.

14. When Peck leaves a drunk and sleeping Li'l Bit in the car, what music is playing?
(a) Gary Pucket and the Union Gaps "This Girl is a Woman Now".
(b) Wagner's "Flying Dutchman".
(c) Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby".
(d) The Beach Boys' "You're Sixteen".

15. What is the name of the county where Peck grows up?
(a) Washington.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Merry.
(d) Horry.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peck, how are women taught to drive?

2. Who participates in the scene with three generations at the kitchen table?

3. When Li'l Bit is born, who is able to hold her in an outstretched hand?

4. What is serious business to Peck?

5. Who is the nearest thing to a son to Peck?

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