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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is George Baldwin's wife?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Maisie.
(c) Cecily.
(d) Cassie.

3. Jimmy's mother tells him not to eat his ice cream too fast or he will get what?
(a) Sick.
(b) A cold.
(c) Brain freeze.
(d) The collywobbles.

4. What does Cassie think of Ellen?
(a) She is a great actress.
(b) She is a dreadful woman.
(c) She is a good friend.
(d) She is a man-stealer.

5. Where is the yellow-painted drugstore that the man at the end of Chapter 1 goes to?
(a) 42nd Street.
(b) Canal Street.
(c) Off Broadway.
(d) Wall Street.

6. What does Ellen call her friend Alice when she won't go down an obscure little path with her in the park?
(a) A witch.
(b) A meany.
(c) A flake.
(d) A scarecat.

7. Who helps Ellen deal with Stan when he shows up in her dressing room drunk?
(a) Cassie.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Milly.
(d) Jojo.

8. Why does Stan want to go to Mouquin's in the morning?
(a) For the flowers.
(b) For bacon and eggs.
(c) To find Ellie.
(d) For an absinthe cocktail.

9. Who does Joe Harland ask for a loan of "twenty-five" dollars?
(a) Goldweiser.
(b) Felsius.
(c) Mullen.
(d) Burnett.

10. Where does Jimmy Herf graduate from college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) NYU.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

11. How does Ellen's mother think that she and her father feel about her?
(a) That they hate her.
(b) That they want to send her to France.
(c) That they adore her.
(d) That they want her to work.

12. What does the burglar, Nicky Schatz, end up with when he gets home from the burglary?
(a) A roll of stage money.
(b) A sack of gold coins.
(c) Ellen's earrings.
(d) A valuable brooch.

13. When Jimmy is returning from his sea voyage, what does the man say that the yellow flagged boat is?
(a) The prison boat.
(b) The orphanage boat.
(c) The quarrantine boat.
(d) The deportation boat.

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

15. What is the train called in New York besides the subway?
(a) The Locomotive.
(b) The Commuter.
(c) The Elevated.
(d) The Speedmover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Ed and the person who takes him out for a drink part ways?

2. What happens that makes Captain McAvoy turn his tug abruptly?

3. What does the lady with the pink cameo actually give Bud for moving the coal?

4. When Bud is on the Brooklyn Bridge, what does it sound like when a car goes by?

5. What building where mostly nice people live does Jimmy pass on Broadway on his way to buy some candy?

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