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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Morris say that life is NOT when he is talking to Cassie?
(a) A place for the timid.
(b) A gas.
(c) All beer and sauerkraut.
(d) A bowl of cherries.

2. What did Bud's father do to him when he was a kid?
(a) Revered him.
(b) Locked him in the closet.
(c) Sold him into slavery.
(d) Beat him.

3. Who is apparently staying at the Waldorf as evidenced by the flag outside the building?
(a) The Queen of England.
(b) The Canadian prime minister.
(c) The Kaiser of Germany.
(d) The Siamese ambassador.

4. What does Ed do for a living?
(a) He is a lawyer.
(b) He is a detective.
(c) He is a merchant.
(d) He is an accountant.

5. Where are John and Elaine going so that she can feel gay?
(a) Upstate New York.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Toronto.
(d) Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Bud come from?

2. Who does Joe Harland ask for a loan of "twenty-five" dollars?

3. What does the man's wife who shaves at the end of "Ferryslip" say of his clean face?

4. What country is the person from who goes with Ed for a drink?

5. What color are Jojo Oglethorpe's spats?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harry say of Elaine's performance backstage with Sol next to him?

2. Why can't Jimmy remember how his mother used to look when he is near the cemetery?

3. Why doesn't Jimmy's mother ever laugh anymore the week before he goes back to school? How does he react?

4. Why does Jimmy call up his Aunt Emily, Riverside 2466?

5. What does Joe O'Keefe say about loaning a dollar to Joe Harland?

6. Why does the girl in the forget-me-not hat confront Emile in the street?

7. What does John Oglethorpe say to George of his relationship with Elaine?

8. What does the man sitting next to Joe Harland in the Battery say of the actresses in the papers?

9. Why does the nurse have to give Susie a sedative?

10. Why does the barkeep at the saloon tell Thatcher that it is no good to save money?

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