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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are John and Elaine going so that she can feel gay?
(a) Atlantic City.
(b) Upstate New York.
(c) Toronto.
(d) Philadelphia.

2. What song is Ed Thatcher trying to pick out on the piano?
(a) How Great Thou Art.
(b) We're in the Money.
(c) The Mosquito Parade.
(d) When the Saints Go Marchin in.

3. Why is Mrs. McNeil skeptical that George Baldwin is a lawyer?
(a) He looks too young.
(b) He walked to her house.
(c) He is dressed like a longshoreman.
(d) She thinks she knows him form a bar.

4. What does Stan say he was born as?
(a) A nihilist.
(b) A dirty dog.
(c) A capitalist.
(d) A pessimist.

5. How much does the lady with the pink cameo say she is going to give Bud for moving a load of coal?
(a) A rare dime.
(b) A dollar.
(c) A sixpence.
(d) A shilling.

6. What does Stan say when Ellen says he's sober at least when he shows up in her dressing room?
(a) "I've got the DT's."
(b) "Sober as a judge."
(c) "Sober as a penguin."
(d) "You insult me."

7. Where does Hartly want to go for vacation?
(a) Virginia Beach.
(b) Upstate New York.
(c) The Maine woods.
(d) Atlantic City.

8. What does Jimmy tell Stan that his cousin James Merivale is?
(a) His best friend.
(b) A momma's boy.
(c) A complete swine.
(d) The perfect wise virgin.

9. What does Ed's drinking buddy say of having kids?
(a) They are loud.
(b) They tear your heart out.
(c) They are the best thing to ever happen to a man.
(d) They eat money.

10. What picture hangs in Joe Harland's bedroom?
(a) The Swing.
(b) The Poker Dogs.
(c) The Statue of Liberty.
(d) The Stag at Bay.

11. What does the man's wife who shaves at the end of "Ferryslip" say of his clean face?
(a) "By the Living Jingo!"
(b) "Hot popper!"
(c) "You're the King C. Gillette!"
(d) "Ovoy! Ovoy!"

12. What building where mostly nice people live does Jimmy pass on Broadway on his way to buy some candy?
(a) The Plaza.
(b) The Station.
(c) The Waldorf.
(d) The Ansonia.

13. What is Stan reading as he is lying on Jimmy's bed?
(a) L'Apres-midi d'un Faune.
(b) L'Oiseau de Feu.
(c) Le Petite Prince.
(d) La Revolte des Anges.

14. What does Jimmy's mother call him?
(a) Her big soldier.
(b) Her best boy.
(c) Her future lawyer.
(d) Her little dreamer.

15. What happens when Ed and the person who takes him out for a drink part ways?
(a) Ed's wife yells at him.
(b) Ed gets into a bar fight.
(c) The guy sticks Ed with the check.
(d) The bartender throws Ed out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellen call her friend Alice when she won't go down an obscure little path with her in the park?

2. Who does Ruth Prynne say lives at Mrs. Sunderland's?

3. What game does Maisie ask Jimmy if he knows how to play?

4. Who is George Baldwin's wife?

5. Who shows up where Stan and Ellie are hiding out together?

(see the answer keys)

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