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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jimmy's cousin's name?

2. What is the motto above the man's head in the King C. Gillette ad?

3. What company is the lady on the white horse advertising?

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

5. What building where mostly nice people live does Jimmy pass on Broadway on his way to buy some candy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does NIWDLAB EGROEG mean?

7. What has Ed Thatcher worried as he enters the hospital with flowers for his wife?

8. How does Fifi Waters act when she finally gets to the restaurant?

9. How does Nicky Schatz set up the burglary of the apartment where Stan and Elaine are having an affair?

10. What does Stan say about success?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rosie and Jake, two criminals, seem to have the most successful relationship in the book. Cite examples of this from the book and explain why it seems they truly love each other.

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Jimmy Herf lets go of Ellen. How does he feel about losing her? What is her reaction?

Essay Topic 3

At one point Ellen says that having children is an admission of defeat. Eventually, after Stan's death, she marries Jimmy Herf and has a child. How does she feel about her life, Jimmy, the child, and Stan's death?

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