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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Larry drink a private toast to Hickey?
(a) Hickey had some wonderful ideas.
(b) Hoping he finds some kind of peace.
(c) He had grown close to Hickey.
(d) Hickey had greatly improved all of their lives.

2. What do Margie and Pearl call themselves, as they enter the bar?
(a) Courtesans.
(b) Tarts.
(c) Whores.
(d) Ladies of the night.

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

4. What does Hugo ask Parritt to do, one last time?
(a) Sit by him.
(b) Sing a song.
(c) Buy him a drink.
(d) Tell his story.

5. What does Larry believe Hickey brings with him?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Life.
(d) Peace.

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

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

8. Why does Hickey say he will have a glass of champagne?
(a) He likes champagne.
(b) He is being pressured to have some.
(c) They are doing a toast to Harry.
(d) To prove he can still be sociable.

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

10. Who follows Harry into the bar?
(a) Cora and Chuck.
(b) Jimmy and Hickey.
(c) Pearl and Margie.
(d) Joe and Rocky.

11. Why does Hickey want to die?
(a) He needs to explain to Evelyn why he did what he did.
(b) He wants God to punish him.
(c) He wants the pain to end.
(d) He feels so guilty.

12. For what are the regulars waiting?
(a) To feel the effect the booze is going to have on them.
(b) Hickey to return.
(c) Their dreams to become reality.
(d) Parritt to leave.

13. What of Harry's does Rocky narrate?
(a) Opening of presents.
(b) His walk across the street.
(c) Harry's conversation with Hickey.
(d) His party.

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

15. What does Hickey know is hard to face down?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Pipe dreams.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) Lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rocky greet Margie and Pearl?

2. About what is Hugo glad?

3. How is Harry when he rushes into the bar?

4. What does Larry do as the other down-and-outers drunkenly sing their favorite songs?

5. What does Hickey say about Harry's fear?

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