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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Anna's mother scolds her in what language besides English?
(a) Welsh.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) French.
(d) Swedish.

3. Who does Gus McNeil tell Burke to set up a drink on him for?
(a) His friend from high shool.
(b) The ladies at the bar.
(c) The company.
(d) Burke himself.

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

5. How does Jimmy see Ellen at the restaurant in Gare de Lyon?
(a) As a porcelain figure under bellglass.
(b) As a towering skyscraper.
(c) As a typical mother.
(d) As a warm rose with thorns.

6. What causes Stan to say "To hell with it" when he gets to his apartment?
(a) The cash in his pocket.
(b) Pearline's smell.
(c) The empty refirgerator.
(d) Ellen's absence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Where does Jimmy tell Tony to go when he questions his sexuality?
(a) To the country.
(b) To Crete.
(c) To San Francisco.
(d) To a psychoanalyst.

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

15. What does Jimmy Herf offer his cousin, Joe Harland, in Chapter 11?
(a) A pen.
(b) A ride into town.
(c) Money for lunch.
(d) A Camel cigarette.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Phil Sandbourne find himself drinking in the hospital after being hit by a car?

4. What do the Herfs smuggle into the country from their trip abroad?

5. Dick Snow's mother owns what kind of factory?

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