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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Mr. Weyinburg at home from work?
(a) He has a hernia.
(b) He broke a leg.
(c) His car is in a snow bank.
(d) He has a cold.

3. Who is very ill in the story, Just Before the War with the Eskimos?
(a) Ginnie's father.
(b) Selena's father.
(c) Selena's mother.
(d) Ginnie's mother.

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

5. Who is Mr. Weyinburg?
(a) Eloise's college sweetheart.
(b) Mary Jane's ex-husband.
(c) Mary Jane's boss.
(d) Eloise's husband.

6. Who is Sybil Carpenter?
(a) A friend of Muriel's family.
(b) A 55-year-old woman on vacation with her son.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A five-year-old girl staying at the hotel.

7. What does Selena's father do for a living?
(a) He makes tennis balls.
(b) He is in the military.
(c) He sells on the stock market.
(d) He is an English teacher.

8. Where does Mary Jane get the cameo brooch she is wearing?
(a) She finds it in college.
(b) She buys it.
(c) From her mom.
(d) From Eloise.

9. What does the Laughing Man subsist on?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Rice and eagles' blood.
(c) Pork and beans.
(d) Steak and potatoes.

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

11. Who is Lew?
(a) The butler.
(b) Mary Jane's ex-husband.
(c) Eloise's husband.
(d) Mary Jane's boss.

12. Why does Ginnie like playing tennis with Selena?
(a) Selena is not a good tennis player.
(b) Selena always pays for the ride to the court.
(c) Selena is a good tennis player.
(d) Selena always brings fresh tennis balls.

13. How does Walt die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) Old age.
(c) In combat.
(d) A stove explodes.

14. Who is John Gedsudski?
(a) The chief.
(b) A parent.
(c) The main character.
(d) A student.

15. How many times is Mary Jane at Eloise's house before?
(a) Never.
(b) Twice.
(c) First time.
(d) Three times.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ginnie describe Selena's living room?

2. Who is Eric?

3. How often does the Comanche Club meet?

4. Why isn't Selena's brother in the Army?

5. Who thinks Seymour is "manic?"

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