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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry ask from Larry?
(a) A drink.
(b) For understanding.
(c) An apology.
(d) A hug.

2. Why does Margie ask Cora to start playing the piano again?
(a) Margie wants Cora to play her favorite song.
(b) There is a nervous silence.
(c) So the party can have some life.
(d) She likes Cora's playing.

3. What does Hickey tell Harry it is time to do?
(a) Change his life.
(b) Get a drink.
(c) Take a nap.
(d) Go home.

4. What do Chuck and the others say to Hickey as he is rambling on about having no more pipe dreams living freely?
(a) We do not believe you.
(b) We want to believe you.
(c) Be quiet.
(d) You should not be here.

5. How many candles are on the cake, for each year of his life?
(a) One.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

6. Where are most of the regular down-and-outers sitting?
(a) In different seats.
(b) At the tables.
(c) Outside the bar.
(d) In their usual positions.

7. Why does Parritt say he betrayed his mother?
(a) He knew what she was doing is illegal.
(b) He hated her.
(c) She needed to be caught.
(d) He needed the money.

8. What does Rocky wonder about Evelyn?
(a) If she ever loved Hickey.
(b) If she is really dead.
(c) If she committed suicide.
(d) If Hickey killed her.

9. What do Larry and Rocky say should happen to Hickey?
(a) He should be punished.
(b) He should be given a psychological evaluation.
(c) He should be executed.
(d) He should be exiled.

10. What is Wetjoen going to prove to Hickey?
(a) He is not dreamer.
(b) He has the right to dream.
(c) Hickey should have such good dreams.
(d) His dreams will come true.

11. Who are the two men that appear?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Harry's brothers.
(c) Parritt's friends.
(d) Joe and Jimmy.

12. What did Evelyn believe, no matter what Hickey did?
(a) He was insane.
(b) He was a good man and a good husband.
(c) She would never forgive him.
(d) He was a horrible person.

13. Where does Chuck go to get money?
(a) From behind the bar.
(b) From the ATM.
(c) From Cora.
(d) From the bank.

14. With what kind of woman is Parritt through?
(a) Poor women.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) Ugly women.
(d) Shallow women.

15. What does Hickey begin to believe about Evelyn?
(a) She is cheating on him with the iceman.
(b) She is planning on leaving him.
(c) She loves and forgives him in order to humiliate him.
(d) She is stealing from him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the last time Harry had a cake?

2. Why is Rocky not able to get up to leave?

3. What does Harry say about this gathering?

4. Why does Harry immediately reject the cake?

5. What happens when the candles are lit, champagne is poured, and Cora starts to play?

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