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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Harry gifts his token of appreciation for the workers, where does he go?
(a) The supermarket.
(b) His apartment.
(c) To Regina's apartment.
(d) The Greek diner.

2. Who walks into the union shop in the middle of the strike after the violence erupted?
(a) Ginger.
(b) Georgette.
(c) Mary.
(d) Goldie.

3. What does Ada want to do once she goes to the park, watching the children play?
(a) To take one of the children home with her.
(b) To go to sleep to dream about Hymie.
(c) To play along with the children.
(d) To talk to someone.

4. Who is ONE character whom Harry invites back to the union shop for beer?
(a) Georgette.
(b) Goldie.
(c) Regina.
(d) Vinnie.

5. Realizing his wife has locked the bathroom door, what does Vinnie do rather than patiently wait until she is finished?
(a) Urinates in a bucket in their apartment hallway.
(b) Urinates in the kitchen sink.
(c) Urinates out of his apartment window.
(d) Urinates in a beer bottle.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator switches back to Mike in Coda, what does he dream about while he is in bed?

2. With what is Abe obsessed in Coda?

3. What does Harry do after his wife, Mary, confronts him about never being home lately?

4. Where is Lucy when the narrator switches back to her story in Coda?

5. What does Lucy realize her children did after the neighbor comes to talk to her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ada notice in Coda as she wakes up in the morning?

2. As the strike continues, how do the police act towards the workers on strike?

3. What do Tralala, Tony, and Al do to the doggie when he returns to the Greek diner?

4. At the beginning of Part IV, how does the narrator describe the tactics Tralala used to get money from sailors?

5. Why is Lucy embarrassed to tell the laundromat manager that her kids poured too much soup into the washing machine?

6. Rather than steal money, what does Tralala realize will earn her more money?

7. At the end of Part IV, when Tralala returns to the bar Willie's, what happens to her body?

8. Towards the end of Coda, what do Vinnie and Mary fight over?

9. How does Mike reward himself for changing his baby's diaper in Coda?

10. How does Coda end? Which characters get into a fight?

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