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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 Ginnie describe Selena's brother?
(a) Handsome.
(b) Goofy.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Funny.

2. Why is Mary Jane's husband sent to jail?
(a) He stabs an M.P..
(b) He steals money.
(c) He steals a car.
(d) He leaves the army without permission.

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

4. Why does Muriel's telephone caller ask so many questions about Seymour's behavior?
(a) Seymour is acting "oddly" lately.
(b) Seymour likes to get in trouble with the law.
(c) Seymour is practicing a funny piano routine.
(d) Seymour is physically sick.

5. Who graduates from college first, Mary Jane or Eloise?
(a) Neither of them graduated.
(b) They are still in college.
(c) Mary Jane.
(d) Eloise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is going to fight the Eskimos?

2. What does Ginnie believe she is unfairly paying for?

3. Who is John Gedsudski?

4. How old is the main character in 1928?

5. Who is Eric?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the Laughing Man?

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

3. What happens with Seymour and the trees?

4. Who is the Laughing Man?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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