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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oliver do next?
(a) Kisses Jennifer on the lips.
(b) Smiles and tells his teammates she's a real live one.
(c) Turns away and walks off.
(d) Gets a little tearful and apologetic.

2. Who is waiting for Oliver in the parking lot after the game?
(a) Oliver's father.
(b) Jenny's father.
(c) Oliver's uncle.
(d) Jenny.

3. What does Oliver's father admonish him about when they are eating at the club?
(a) Driving too fast.
(b) Eating too fast.
(c) Not calling his mother often enough.
(d) Not following up on the law school application.

4. What does the dinner conversation foreshadow in Oliver's life?
(a) Oliver joining the Peace Corps.
(b) Oliver's father dying in a car crash.
(c) Oliver being disinherited.
(d) His father's disapproval of Jenny.

5. Who is Phil?
(a) Jenny's brother-in-law.
(b) Jenny's father.
(c) Jenny's ex-boyfriend.
(d) Jenny's brother.

6. Who recognizes Oliver when he goes to pick Jenny up at her dorm?
(a) The girl on bells.
(b) The housemother.
(c) The janitor.
(d) No one.

7. How does Oliver seem to feel about his illustrious ancestors?
(a) Condescending to Jenny.
(b) Proud.
(c) It's not obvious what he feels.
(d) Almost embarrassed.

8. What makes Oliver love Jenny all the more?
(a) The fact that she wants to have children right away.
(b) The fact that she understands him and accepts his faults.
(c) The fact that she is not interested in his money.
(d) Her tendency to talk too much when nervous.

9. Where is Oliver in this chapter?
(a) Back at home.
(b) In New York.
(c) In Paris.
(d) At his school.

10. Where does Oliver take Jennifer?
(a) To his penthouse.
(b) To the opera.
(c) To his family's lakeside cabin.
(d) A hockey game.

11. What does Jenny think about Mrs. Barrett's announcement?
(a) She is embarrassed.
(b) She is impressed.
(c) She is delighted.
(d) She thinks it's terrible.

12. Before Oliver asks Jenny to marry him, what did the relationship seem to be?
(a) An on again, off again affair.
(b) A casual affair.
(c) A way for Oliver to consort with someone of lower class to learn about that part of society.
(d) Destined to end soon.

13. What is named after Oliver's family?
(a) The public library in Boston.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A hall on Harvard campus.
(d) An airline company.

14. How often is Oliver knocked down in a hockey game?
(a) Rarely.
(b) Many times in a game.
(c) Once or twice a game.
(d) Never; he doesn't play hockey.

15. What are Oliver's plans for supporting their new family?
(a) He will clerk at the State Supreme court.
(b) Jenny will be supporting them.
(c) He has cashed in some of his inheritance.
(d) He has bought a small sandwhich shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Oliver discussing with the person in question #104?

2. What would best describe Oliver's upbringing?

3. Why does Oliver's roommate have to sleep somewhere else now?

4. What does Oliver wonder about Jenny as she looks at his father?

5. What does the trainer say that Oliver needs to add more of to his diet?

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