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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 the solider suggest he and F. Jasmin go on their date?
(a) The Blue Moon.
(b) The Idle Hour.
(c) The Happy Spot.
(d) The Green Room.

2. What time does F. Jasmin agree to meet the soldier for a date?
(a) 9:00 pm.
(b) 6:00 pm.
(c) 7:00 pm.
(d) 8:00 pm.

3. What did Frankie used to do at the Blue Moon?
(a) She would stand outside on the sidewalk and listen to the radio programs.
(b) She would meet up with friends outside of the Blue Moon.
(c) She stood outside on the sidewalk with her nose pressed against the screen door and watch the customers.
(d) She would sit outside of the Blue Moon in hopes that she would see her brother when he came to town.

4. How much time did Jarvis spend in Alaska?
(a) Almost 2 years.
(b) Almost 1 year.
(c) Almost 3 years.
(d) Almost 4 years.

5. What is Frankie's birth month?
(a) November.
(b) March.
(c) January.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was F. Jasmin in the neighborhood of the Blue Moon?

2. During what month does the story take place?

3. What did Jarvis send Frankie three months after she sent her initial gift?

4. What was Jarvis's position in the army?

5. What product was the sassy chorus on the radio singing an advertisement for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Berenice describe her final three marriages?

2. What is the point of Berenice's stories about her past husbands? Why does she share the story with F. Jasmin?

3. What does F. Jasmin ask her father when she returns home from her date? How does her father respond?

4. Describe John Henry.

5. How are Frances' dreams of travel kept alive at the end of Part 3?

6. What role does John Henry play in the conversations that take place in Part 2, Chapter 2? How does the narrator's reference of John Henry as gray foreshadow what may come later in the novel?

7. What changes does the month of November bring for Frances, Berenice, and John Henry?

8. How does Frances react to not being included in the wedding party?

9. Who are the Marlowe's, what is their relationship to Frankie and her family, and why do they no longer live in the front bedroom?

10. What happens to Jasmin after the monkey and the monkey man leaves the scene where he and the red-haired solider had their argument?

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