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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Hickey tell Harry it is time to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Take a nap.
(c) Change his life.
(d) Get a drink.
2. How many candles are on the cake, for each year of his life?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.
3. What does Hickey know is hard to face down?
(a) Pipe dreams.
(b) Lies.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) Poverty.
4. What does Chuck say about his and Cora's dreams of marriage?
(a) They are dreams.
(b) Marriage is heaven.
(c) They are reality.
(d) They have come true.
5. Why does Hickey want to die?
(a) He wants the pain to end.
(b) He feels so guilty.
(c) He needs to explain to Evelyn why he did what he did.
(d) He wants God to punish him.
6. What does Rocky do to Parritt?
(a) Rocky hugs him.
(b) Rocky hits him.
(c) Rocky taunts him.
(d) Rocky spits at him.
7. What does Hugo ask Parritt to do, one last time?
(a) Sing a song.
(b) Buy him a drink.
(c) Tell his story.
(d) Sit by him.
8. What does Harry say about this gathering?
(a) It is as it should be.
(b) It is his real birthday party.
(c) It is pathetic.
(d) It is the safest place to be.
9. What does Hickey say about Harry's fear?
(a) It will linger.
(b) It will never completely go away.
(c) It can and will fade.
(d) It is understandable.
10. With what kind of woman is Parritt through?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Shallow women.
(c) Ugly women.
(d) Poor women.
11. What does Larry believe Hickey brings with him?
(a) Peace.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Love.
12. Where are most of the regular down-and-outers sitting?
(a) Outside the bar.
(b) In different seats.
(c) At the tables.
(d) In their usual positions.
13. Why does Harry angrily tell them all to quit?
(a) He is upset about his wife.
(b) They are taunting him.
(c) So they do not attract the police.
(d) He does not want to celebrate his birthday.
14. What does Hickey admit about Evelyn?
(a) They were never officially married.
(b) She is not dead.
(c) He shot Eveylyn.
(d) She was shot.
15. What peace does Larry say Hickey brought?
(a) Peace of honesty.
(b) Peace of faith.
(c) Peace of death.
(d) Peace of love.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Larry do as the other down-and-outers drunkenly sing their favorite songs?
2. How is Willie when he returns?
3. Why is Rocky not able to get up to leave?
4. What does Hickey believe Evelyn deserved?
5. What of Harry's does Rocky narrate?
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