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

2. How does Eloise and Mary Jane become friends?
(a) They are sisters.
(b) They are college roommates.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They work together.

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

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

5. Who is the only person that can truly make Eloise laugh?
(a) Lew.
(b) Walt.
(c) Mary Jane.
(d) Jimmy Jimmereano.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is crying because she wants to be told she is a nice girl in the story, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?

2. What does Sybil complain to Seymour about when meeting him on the beach?

3. Where is the Chief from?

4. What does Seymour do when he sits down on the bed after grabbing the object out of the suitcase?

5. Who dies of cancer and weighs just 62 pounds in the story, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is the Chief?

3. What is the issue with the book Seymour gives Muriel?

4. What is wrong physically with Ramona?

5. 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?

6. Why does Eloise so fondly remember Walt?

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

8. Why are Mary Jane and Eloise good friends for each other?

9. What happens with Seymour and the trees?

10. Why does Ginnie suddenly forgive Selena's debt?

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