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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arthur put up with for five years?
(a) Joanie's excessive gambling.
(b) Joanie running around with other men.
(c) Joanie's bad cooking.
(d) Joanie's excessive drinking.

2. Which famous French artist does the narrator claim to know personally?
(a) Manet.
(b) Cezanne.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Monet.

3. Why does the narrator stop in front of the church during his walk on the last day of training?
(a) To meet some friends.
(b) To read the bulletin board.
(c) To get out of the rain.
(d) To attend a religious service.

4. What does the narrator's mother-in-law want him to send her?
(a) Cashmere yarn.
(b) Olives.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Tea.

5. Why is the narrator of De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period going to art school?
(a) To fill the time during the day.
(b) To meet women.
(c) To help his commercial art career.
(d) To make Bobby happy.

6. What is Esme training herself to be?
(a) A better dancer.
(b) A better reader.
(c) More compassionate.
(d) A better singer.

7. Where does Arthur want to move?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) New York City.
(d) Boston.

8. Where does the narrator accept a job in De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Canada.
(c) Paris.
(d) New York.

9. Why does Arthur say his marriage isn't working?
(a) They are too far apart in age.
(b) They don't have any fun together.
(c) They don't have anything in common.
(d) They are mis-mated.

10. What does Arthur think Joanie enjoys most about a new house?
(a) The quiet.
(b) Decorating the new house.
(c) The garden.
(d) Getting a dog.

11. What artist does the narrator most resemble?
(a) El Grecco.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Da Vinci.
(d) Michelangelo.

12. Who is Miss Megley?
(a) The narrator's wife.
(b) The governess.
(c) The talented young singer.
(d) The waitress.

13. What are the flashes of light the narrator ignores on his walk on the last day of training?
(a) Camera bulb flashes.
(b) Bombs.
(c) Power outages.
(d) Lightening.

14. How does Bobby lose everything?
(a) Wall Street crash of 1929.
(b) He loses his job.
(c) Gambling.
(d) He is robbed.

15. What job does the narrator accept under the name, Jean de Daumier-Smith?
(a) Art teacher.
(b) Art buyer.
(c) English teacher.
(d) Art critic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the goggles that are thrown overboard once belong to?

2. What does Arthur think he finds in the closets when he gets home every night?

3. What song is Boo Boo singing on the way to the Dinghy?

4. What interesting item does Mrs. Snell always wear, even in summer?

5. Who is Sandra?

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