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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 one of the Chief's most coveted skills?
(a) Driving.
(b) First aid.
(c) Football.
(d) Piano playing.

2. What does Sybil complain to Seymour about when meeting him on the beach?
(a) Seymour lets his wife sit next to him on the piano bench.
(b) Seymour doesn't play the piano the night before.
(c) Seymour refuses to teach Sybil how to play the piano.
(d) Seymour lets another girl sit next to him on the piano bench.

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

4. Why does Ramona sleep on the edge of the bed?
(a) She wants to give Jimmy Jimmereano room to sleep.
(b) She doesn't, she sleeps in the middle of the bed.
(c) She can see out of the window better when she's close to the edge.
(d) She likes to be ready to get out of bed quickly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys do on sunny days?

2. What does the Laughing Man subsist on?

3. What size shoe does Ginnie wear?

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

5. Who is Mr. Weyinburg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is wrong physically with Ramona?

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

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

4. Why does Muriel insist that Seymour isn't capable of harmful actions?

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

6. What can the reader like about a character like Muriel?

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

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

9. What is Seymour hospitalized for?

10. What makes the reader think that perhaps Eric is not allowed into the military because he is homosexual?

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