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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jimmy go while Ellie is having her baby?
(a) Out to eat.
(b) To a burlesque show.
(c) To get a drink.
(d) The Flea Circus.

2. In the Chinese restaurant, what song is the jazz band playing when Dutch and Francie are dancing?
(a) In the Mood.
(b) Hindustan.
(c) Caravan.
(d) Take the A Train.

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

4. What dinner does George wish to order for Ellen?
(a) A Long Island shore dinner.
(b) Cornish game hens under glass.
(c) A five-course meal.
(d) Spaghetti and meatballs.

5. What is Mrs. Densch afraid she is going to look like if she doesn't go to the party in her new dress?
(a) A Southern grandmother.
(b) A poor Amish person.
(c) A ragged harlot.
(d) A country schoolteacher.

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

7. To whom does Stan refer when he is trying to light himself on fire?
(a) The golden boy.
(b) A lady on a white horse.
(c) Ellen and her kind.
(d) The goddess of pain.

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

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

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

11. What does Billy' think of the X-ray treatment?
(a) He wants some himself.
(b) He thinks they are dangerous.
(c) He hopes she will die from them.
(d) He has read they are beneficial.

12. What does Harland say of the photographs in the paper?
(a) They are tasteless.
(b) They are interesting.
(c) They are badly taken.
(d) They are risque.

13. Jimmy is soaring like a _____________ when he smells Ellen's hair while dancing.
(a) An eagle.
(b) A bottlerocket.
(c) A homerun.
(d) A fireballoon.

14. What do the girls where Anna works elbow each other to turn in?
(a) Time cards.
(b) Dance checks.
(c) Stolen watches.
(d) Poker chips.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. George Baldwin sends two dozen of what type of rose to Ellen?

2. Alice Sheffield goes to what store to buy quite a lot of things?

3. Where does Jimmy want to go when he sees the French boat in the harbor?

4. What does the "tramp" that Joe and Skinny encounter think people need?

5. Which company makes pipe tobacco that doesn't come in tins?

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