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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anna say about children in Chapter 17?
(a) She finds babysitting makes her want them more.
(b) She is never going to have any.
(c) She wants to adopt.
(d) She wants a child badly.

2. According to the taxi driver who drops Elaine and George off, why is there is such a big crowd at the road house?
(a) The Canarsie murder.
(b) The war.
(c) The weather is stellar.
(d) It is steak night.

3. What are the women who followed the armies in the French Revolution called (a reference to Ellen's feelings for Stan)?
(a) Cantonnieres.
(b) Les Femmes de Guerre.
(c) Les Oiseaux de Nuit.
(d) Les Meres de La Revolution.

4. What does Rosie want from the flower stall in the lobby?
(a) A gardenia.
(b) A rose.
(c) A daisy.
(d) A carnation.

5. Who is the only friend Harland has in the family?
(a) Jimmy's Aunt Emily.
(b) His favorite grandmother.
(c) His son.
(d) Jimmy's mother, Lily.

6. Who does Pearline brag to about Stan's ambitions?
(a) The dog catcher.
(b) The blue gingham lady in the gorcery store.
(c) The old man on the bench.
(d) The beat cop at the diner.

7. What does Stan wish he was?
(a) An artist.
(b) A success.
(c) A skyscraper.
(d) A thunder cloud.

8. Where do the minarets flame-like great candles round the Golden Horn?
(a) Mesopotamia.
(b) Babel.
(c) Constantinople.
(d) Assyria.

9. What does Phil Sandbourne find himself drinking in the hospital after being hit by a car?
(a) Lemonade in a jar.
(b) Hot tea form a ceramic cup.
(c) Icewater out of a teapot.
(d) Milk through a straw.

10. Harland asks Jimmy if he doesn't mind being seen with a ___________ like him.
(a) Jailbird.
(b) Scarecrow.
(c) Cat chaser.
(d) Rooster.

11. Stan used to say to Ellen, "No time to get tight like______".
(a) Fright.
(b) A tightrope.
(c) Hindsight.
(d) Twilight.

12. Jimmy Herf thinks reporters are what?
(a) Important.
(b) Parasites.
(c) Respectable.
(d) Rodents.

13. What does George Baldwin think of Washington?
(a) It is the best place to get pie.
(b) It is the key to his political career.
(c) It is a greasy backwater.
(d) It is the center of sin.

14. Who is the dressmaker that Jimmy takes Ellen to?
(a) Mrs. Sunderland.
(b) Madame Rigaud.
(c) Madame Soubrine.
(d) Lady Chemise.

15. According to Jimmy, who was the man killed in the war named Jaures?
(a) A journalist.
(b) A spy for the Germans.
(c) An anarchist.
(d) A French socialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jimmy is soaring like a _____________ when he smells Ellen's hair while dancing.

2. What does Billy' think of the X-ray treatment?

3. Who says he has come from overseas making the world safe for democracy?

4. What is the name of the child of Jimmy Herf and Ellen Thatcher?

5. Who does Gus McNeil tell Burke to set up a drink on him for?

(see the answer keys)

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