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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. Where does Congo learn to speak American and tend bar?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) New York.
(d) Toronto.

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

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

4. Where does Jimmy take Harland to lunch?
(a) A Chinese restaurant.
(b) A Syrian restaurant.
(c) A bistro.
(d) A Mexican resaurant.

5. Alice Sheffield goes to what store to buy quite a lot of things?
(a) Burberry.
(b) Lord & Taylor.
(c) Hickson's.
(d) Nieman Marcus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosie want from the flower stall in the lobby?

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

3. Who says to herself, "Somebody loves me, I wonder who..."?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What doe Phil think will happen if he can sell his tiles to architects?

2. Why does Stan throw the chair through the window of his apartment?

3. What has happened in Captain James Merivale's family since he has been gone?

4. When Ellen is having their baby, why does Jimmy think she is going to die?

5. Who does Maisie's boyfriend Jack say he has worked for?

6. What are the virtues of its tobacco extolled by the Socony company?

7. Why is Dutch asked to leave the dance floor of the Chinese restaurant?

8. What does Ellen say to George when he tells her Cecily has consented to a divorce?

9. What does she mean when Rachel Goldweiser says that New York is pleasanter in midsummer than any other time?

10. What does Jimmy say to Congo concerning their comparative social status?

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