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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Martin say an artist is?
(a) A fardel.
(b) An enlightener.
(c) A thinker.
(d) A louse.

3. As Ellen walks along Eighth Street to Dick Snow's office, what song does she hear a grind organ playing?
(a) Blue Danube.
(b) Tarantella.
(c) The Star Spangled Banner.
(d) Yankee Doodle.

4. 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 weather is stellar.
(b) It is steak night.
(c) The Canarsie murder.
(d) The war.

5. What song is playing on the grind organ as Pearline passes?
(a) Petite Waltz.
(b) Merry Widow Waltz.
(c) Dog Day Afternoon.
(d) Oh, Tannenbaum.

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

7. Who has gotten her throat X-rayed?
(a) Mrs. Sunderland.
(b) Ruth Prynne.
(c) Cassie.
(d) Ellen.

8. What does George Baldwin think will happen as a result of the war?
(a) His gold futures will go through the roof.
(b) The Stock Exchange will close.
(c) There will be a food shortage.
(d) His wife will go crazy.

9. How old is Stan in "Rollercoaster"?
(a) A high school kid.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Thirty.

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

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

12. Who does Nevada end up marrying?
(a) Jimmy Herf.
(b) Armand Duvall.
(c) George Baldwin.
(d) Bud Korpenning.

13. Who gruffly blurts out, "We all have to die sometime," in Ellen's apartment?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Jojo.
(c) Harry.
(d) Cassie.

14. According to the "tramp", there is more wickedness in one block in New York City than in a square mile in _______.
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Syria.
(c) Nineveh.
(d) Hell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mr. Cunningham get his divorce from Mrs. Cunningham?

2. What does Jimmy Herf offer his cousin, Joe Harland, in Chapter 11?

3. To where does Rosie want to make a getaway?

4. What does Ellen say a woman wants when George says he will go mad if he can't have her?

5. What does Phil want to sell?

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