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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. Nordstrom walks from Brookline to Cambridge for what?
(a) To meet his daughter.
(b) To go to a dance concert.
(c) To see a friend.
(d) His appointment with the psychiatrist.

2. Nordstrom adds the next room to his suite and does what?
(a) Calls Laura.
(b) Invites guests over for a party.
(c) Takes a nap.
(d) Watches television.

3. The brothers' father, Ludlow, regrets what?
(a) Letting his sons go to war instead of sending them back to Harvard.
(b) Letting his sons go hunting without him.
(c) Letting his Native American friend risk his life.
(d) Letting Samuel go to war instead of sending him back to Harvard.

4. When Alfred cannot reason with Tristan, where does the army send Tristan?
(a) Home.
(b) To battle.
(c) To a mental hospital in New York.
(d) To a mental hospital in Paris.

5. Nordstrom hits Slats who replies with what?
(a) A glare.
(b) A punch in the face.
(c) A death threat.
(d) A gun pointed in Norstrom's face.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Tristan and Susannah caught embracing?

2. What does the grief of Samuel's death do to Ludlow?

3. Nordstrom takes Sonia and Philip to see who?

4. About what does Isabel think regarding one of her sons?

5. Who does Ludlow insist on tutoring?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alfred feel about Susannah? Does she feel the same in return?

2. What are the consequences for Tristan's beating of the officer?

3. What takes place when most of the people have left the dinner?

4. How does a woman end up with Samuel's gold pocket watch?

5. What does Phillip discuss philosophically that seems to upset Nordstrom?

6. How does Tristan spend seven years with his new wife?

7. How does Nordstrom spend his time at his going-away party?

8. How does this story end?

9. What does Nordstrom discuss with his psychiatrist?

10. What takes place directly after Sonia's graduation?

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