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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sandra worry about weighing around the boy?
(a) Her words.
(b) The beans.
(c) Her concern.
(d) The coffee.

2. What does Esme want to read about most?
(a) Riddles.
(b) Squalor.
(c) Love.
(d) Her father.

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

4. Who is Lissberg?
(a) Lee's boss.
(b) Joanie's lover.
(c) The attorney for the plantiff in Arthur's case.
(d) Arthur's client.

5. In De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, what is the narrator's most unrealistic wish for New York?
(a) That he is alone in the city.
(b) That everyone learns French.
(c) That he and Bobby find a house.
(d) That he finds a job.

6. What feature does the narrator first notice about Charles?
(a) His voice.
(b) His intelligence.
(c) His hair.
(d) His eyes.

7. What is the narrator's first assignment from Mr. Yoshoto?
(a) Painting.
(b) Sweeping the floor.
(c) Instructing students.
(d) Translating letters.

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

9. How do you describe Lee, from the story, Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes?
(a) A gray-haired man.
(b) A gray-haired woman.
(c) A young man.
(d) A young woman.

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

11. What interesting item does Mrs. Snell always wear, even in summer?
(a) A black felt coat.
(b) A long sweater.
(c) A black felt hat.
(d) A black scarf.

12. Why doesn't Arthur leave his wife?
(a) She makes him laugh too much.
(b) He feels sorry for her.
(c) He loves her too much.
(d) She starts treating him better.

13. Who wins the race back to the house at the end of the story, Down at the Dinghy?
(a) Lionel.
(b) Lionel's father.
(c) Lionel's neighbor.
(d) Boo Boo.

14. Whose work does the narrator still recall clearly after many years?
(a) Bambi Kramer.
(b) R. Howard Ridgefield.
(c) Sister Irma.
(d) Mr. Yoshoto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Arthur say his marriage isn't working?

2. What is the farthest distance Lionel ever runs away to?

3. Who is Boo Boo Tannenbaum?

4. Why does the narrator say he hates chairs?

5. Who does Lee say is Arthur's worst enemy?

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