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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. What is Muriel Glass doing when the call comes through from the hotel operator?
(a) Brushing her teeth.
(b) Tweezing a mole hair.
(c) Painting her nails.
(d) Ironing her clothes.

2. Who does The Laughing Man speak to in the forest?
(a) His best friend.
(b) All of the animals.
(c) His neighbors.
(d) The trees.

3. What does Ginnie believe she is unfairly paying for?
(a) Tennis balls.
(b) Court fees.
(c) Cab fare.
(d) Lunch.

4. What is Muriel doing when Seymour returns from the beach?
(a) She is painting her toe nails.
(b) She is taking a shower.
(c) She is sleeping.
(d) She is talking on the phone.

5. How many New York advertising men are staying at the same hotel as Muriel Glass?
(a) 107.
(b) 97.
(c) 77.
(d) 57.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does the Comanche Club meet?

2. Who is Jimmy Jimmereano?

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

4. What do the boys do on sunny days?

5. Who kidnaps The Laughing Man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What clues is the reader given that Franklin is bitter about Joan?

2. What does the floating red tissue represent in The Laughing Man?

3. Who speaks the most during the story, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, and from who's point of view is the story told?

4. How does the reader know the setting takes place shortly after the end of World War II?

5. What does the reader learn about Muriel's mother during the "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" story?

6. What happens with Seymour and the trees?

7. Why aren't there any men 'seen' in the story, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?

8. Who is the Laughing Man?

9. Why is the Chief so important to the boys?

10. What do Walt and Jimmy Jimmereeno have in common in the story Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut?

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