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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Nick and Marjorie together on this night?
(a) To go to a dance
(b) To set night lines for trout
(c) To go skinny dipping
(d) To elope

2. What is the soldier in the Memoir for Chapter 7 doing?
(a) Praying in a trench
(b) Smoking a cigarette
(c) Cleaning his gun
(d) Writing a letter

3. What is the location of the Story in Chapter 3?
(a) Montana
(b) Maine
(c) New Mexico
(d) Michigan

4. Who is Ad Francis?
(a) A Wall Street executive
(b) A former prizefighter
(c) A minister
(d) An author

5. What has Marjorie brought along tonight?
(a) A bottle of champagne
(b) A transistor radio
(c) Homework
(d) A picnic lunch

6. How does Nick sustain his injury?
(a) He is sucker punched
(b) He falls down stairs
(c) He is hit by a car
(d) He falls on an icy sidewalk

7. What does Nick do at sunrise the next morning?
(a) Goes into town to buy bait
(b) Watches a bass jumping in the lake
(c) Cooks breakfast over the fire
(d) Packs the car to return home

8. Why does Ad get mad at Nick?
(a) He does not have any cigarettes
(b) He does not give him the knife
(c) He does not have any whiskey
(d) He insults his mother

9. In what year does the story for Chapter 7 take place?
(a) 1920
(b) 1919
(c) 1946
(d) 1973

10. Who is the girl Nick has recently broken up with?
(a) Marjorie
(b) Mary
(c) Mary Ellen
(d) Marie

11. About what do Nick and Bill agree is better than baseball?
(a) Books
(b) Whiskey
(c) Girls
(d) Fishing

12. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?
(a) That he will never die
(b) That he wants to remember this morning forever
(c) That he is homesick
(d) That he does not want to leave

13. What does Krebs tell about the war?
(a) Nothing
(b) His actual experiences
(c) Lies
(d) Occasional stories

14. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?
(a) Scream
(b) Sing
(c) Sleep
(d) Cry

15. Nick's recovery in a hospital mirrors whose life?
(a) Fitzgerald's
(b) Hemingway's
(c) Faulkner's
(d) Capote's

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick say about his father?

2. What does Bugs do to calm Ad down?

3. To where does Nick walk to visit his friend, Bill?

4. What is the narrator doing in the Memoir?

5. What does Nick's father not do?

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