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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pays the Chief?
(a) The school.
(b) The city.
(c) The parents.
(d) The boys.

2. Who dies of cancer and weighs just 62 pounds in the story, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?
(a) Eloise.
(b) Mary Jane.
(c) Mr. Weyinburg.
(d) Dr. Whiting.

3. What does Selena's brother offer for Ginnie to eat?
(a) A piece of cheese.
(b) A chicken sandwich.
(c) Tomato soup.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does the Chief drive?
(a) A double-decker bus.
(b) A reconverted commerical bus.
(c) A city bus.
(d) A van.

5. What does the narrator see floating in the wind when he gets off the Chief's vehicle to walk home?
(a) A red veil.
(b) A red mask.
(c) A red hat.
(d) A piece of red tissue paper.

6. Who graduates from college first, Mary Jane or Eloise?
(a) They are still in college.
(b) Neither of them graduated.
(c) Mary Jane.
(d) Eloise.

7. What does Sybil complain to Seymour about when meeting him on the beach?
(a) Seymour refuses to teach Sybil how to play the piano.
(b) Seymour lets his wife sit next to him on the piano bench.
(c) Seymour lets another girl sit next to him on the piano bench.
(d) Seymour doesn't play the piano the night before.

8. When Seymour returns to the room, what does he take out of the suitcase?
(a) A towel.
(b) A poetry book.
(c) A dry bathing suit.
(d) A pistol.

9. Why does Ramona sleep on the edge of the bed?
(a) She wants to give Jimmy Jimmereano room to sleep.
(b) She doesn't, she sleeps in the middle of the bed.
(c) She likes to be ready to get out of bed quickly.
(d) She can see out of the window better when she's close to the edge.

10. Who does Seymour call 'Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948'?
(a) Muriel.
(b) Jane.
(c) Sybil.
(d) Muriel's mother.

11. How long is Mary Jane married?
(a) She is never married.
(b) Three months.
(c) She is still married.
(d) Three years.

12. Who kidnaps The Laughing Man?
(a) The Chief.
(b) The Comanches.
(c) Chinese bandits.
(d) Chinese police.

13. Ginnie dreams that a servant gives _____ out instead of tomato juice at dinner.
(a) Tennis rackets.
(b) Tennis balls.
(c) Chicken sandwiches.
(d) Coffee.

14. What professional team does the Chief get invited to try out for?
(a) The New York Mets.
(b) The New York Giants.
(c) The New York Jets.
(d) The New York Yankees.

15. What size shoe does Ginnie wear?
(a) 8W.
(b) 9A.
(c) 8B.
(d) 9B.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is John Gedsudski?

2. Why does Seymour get angry with the woman in the elevator as he goes back to his room after the beach?

3. Who is accused of being the Queen of the Snobs in the story, Just Before the War with the Eskimos?

4. How does Walt die?

5. Who is going to fight the Eskimos?

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