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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Larry say about all of his dreams?
(a) They are alive.
(b) They are realistic.
(c) They are dead and buried.
(d) He has never had dreams.

2. What does Hickey do with a roll of money?
(a) Throws it away.
(b) Taunts everyone with it.
(c) Buys everyone a drink.
(d) Buys everyone a non-alcoholic beverage.

3. What days does Joe recall?
(a) The days of his youth.
(b) When he was married to his high school sweetheart.
(c) When he first starting coming to the saloon.
(d) When he lived well off the proceeds of his successful gambling house.

4. How does everyone react when Hickey says he has stopped drinking?
(a) They think he is joking.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They believe him instantly.
(d) They are sad.

5. What does Larry call Parritt?
(a) A freak.
(b) A genious.
(c) A hypocrite.
(d) His son.

6. Who turned Parritt's mother in to the authorities?
(a) Rocky.
(b) Larry.
(c) Hickey.
(d) Parritt.

7. How does Harry's mood become?
(a) Solemn and still.
(b) Excited and happy.
(c) Agitated and nervous.
(d) Grieving and sentimental.

8. What is the story about?
(a) An iceman who delivers ice in a neighborhood.
(b) Their painful, aborted attempts to change themselves.
(c) A cave man coming to life.
(d) A group of friends who go out for a night on the town.

9. What does Hugo do after demanding that Parritt buy him a drink?
(a) He retreats into unconsciousness.
(b) He goes upstairs to his room.
(c) He buys Parritt a drink.
(d) He goes home.

10. What new characters arrive?
(a) Margie and Pearl.
(b) Mark and Patrick.
(c) Molly and Polly.
(d) Megan and Patty.

11. Who wakes Hugo up from his drunken stupor?
(a) Larry.
(b) Joe.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Lewis.

12. How does Hickey feel now that he does not have pipe dreams?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Sad.
(c) Uneasy.
(d) Peaceful.

13. What story has Hickey not told?
(a) His iceman story.
(b) His own story.
(c) His mailman story.
(d) His milkman story.

14. What dies with Harry's wife?
(a) His heart.
(b) His desire to advance in politics.
(c) His love for women.
(d) His need to be loved.

15. Why does Larry leave this organization?
(a) He becomes disillusioned.
(b) It is disbanded.
(c) He loses all of his friends.
(d) He does not earn enough money.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Joe dream?

2. Why does Willie stop singing?

3. What does Harry say when he wakes up?

4. What does Hickey reveal about his visit?

5. How does Larry describe the regulars' faith?

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