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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 picture hangs in Joe Harland's bedroom?

2. What does Morris say that life is NOT when he is talking to Cassie?

3. What does Stan say when Ellen says he's sober at least when he shows up in her dressing room?

4. What does Ed do for a living?

5. What is Jimmy called by his friends when he throws them out of his room for making him fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nellie call George "Mr. Baldwin"?

2. Who does George Baldwin have lunch with after encountering Mr. Emery of Emery & Emery on his way out of his office building, and what does he tell this person?

3. Why does Jimmy walk faster when he passes the Chinese laundry?

4. What does Bud witness at the corner of West Broadway and Franklin Street while he is eating peanuts?

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

6. What does Phil Sandbourne say of a man's morals as he is talking to Hartly?

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

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

9. What does Joe Harland say of whiskey when he goes to the bar?

10. Why has Bud Korpenning come to New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Congo's outlook on life and how he progresses throughout the book. Does he retain his sense of humanity? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What is Jimmy's relationship to his mother like when he was a child? How does he deal with her illness and her death? How does her role in his life affect how he evolves throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Tony resist his homosexuality? What toll does it take on his self-esteem? What steps does he take to try to change himself?

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