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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. He walks home the next morning and is upset by seeing what?
(a) No one on the street.
(b) An old black man in a puddle of vomit and a diseased tree.
(c) Trash all over the road.
(d) Homeless people sleeping in a tent.

2. After the graduation reception, Nordstrom tries to give Sonia what?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $15,000.
(d) $1,000.

3. Where does Ludlow's wife, Isabel, spend her winters?
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) New York City.

4. Why do the brothers ride off to Canada?
(a) To go hunting.
(b) To escape the war.
(c) To visit relatives.
(d) To join the Great War.

5. Tristan finally tells Susannah of his plans to meet his grandfather where?
(a) In Havana.
(b) In Puerto Rico.
(c) In Haiti.
(d) In Jamaica.

6. Who does Ludlow insist on tutoring?
(a) His daughter, Isabel Two.
(b) His niece, Isabel Two.
(c) His friend, Isabel Two.
(d) His ranch foreman's daughter, Isabel Two.

7. Tristan goes to deliver some whiskey for a party at Alfred's house, hoping to do what?
(a) See Susannah.
(b) Apologize to Susannah.
(c) Set Susannah straight.
(d) Avoid Susannah.

8. While Sarah is in the bathroom, what does Nordstrom do?
(a) He takes a gun from her purse and puts it under his mattress.
(b) He runs out of the hotel room.
(c) He looks out the window.
(d) He calls the police.

9. How does Susannah feel about Tristan leaving?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sad.
(d) Worried.

10. In the summer, Tristan makes imaginary plans with Susannah, but only wants what?
(a) To have Samuel return.
(b) Her to leave him alone.
(c) Her to have a child to replace Samuel.
(d) To be alone.

11. One Stab accompanies Tristan to the train station and gives Tristan what, which Tristan keeps until his death at age eighty-four?
(a) His skinning knife.
(b) A letter.
(c) A gun.
(d) A book.

12. What happens when Tristan tries to calm Susannah?
(a) He ends up giving her false hope again.
(b) He ends up angering her.
(c) He ends up upsetting her.
(d) He ends up worrying her.

13. Each of the people in Nordstrom's life has his own views about Nordstrom's mid-life crisis. Are any of them able to convince him to change his plans?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Almost.
(d) Only at first.

14. How are Tristan and Susannah caught embracing?
(a) Susannah embraces Tristan in public.
(b) Alfred has gone looking for Tristan.
(c) They embrace in front of Alfred.
(d) Alfred has someone following her.

15. What poet does Isabel invite for dinner?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Amy Lowell.
(d) John Ashbery.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the psychiatrist asks what interests him, how does Nordstrom answer?

2. Tristan comes down with dysentery in dangerous seas and barely escapes with both his life and the ship. His fevers make him delirious. He stands on the bowspirit and hallucinates what?

3. What does Nordstrom think about what Phillip says?

4. How long does Ludlow stay in his room after his sons leave?

5. Why is Susannah better?

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