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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 the narrator's most traumatic move in the story, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period?
(a) From New York to Paris.
(b) Back to Paris from New Jersey.
(c) From New Jersey to Rome.
(d) Back to New York from Paris.

2. What does Esme include with a letter in the package to the narrator?
(a) A map.
(b) A story.
(c) A book of jokes from Charles.
(d) Her father's watch.

3. Why is Le Amis Des Vieux Maitres closed down?
(a) It doesn't have any instructors.
(b) It doesn't have a license.
(c) It doesn't have any students.
(d) It is out of money.

4. What is the farthest distance Lionel ever runs away to?
(a) A couple of miles.
(b) 250 yards.
(c) The front door.
(d) A couple of blocks.

5. What does Arthur put up with for five years?
(a) Joanie running around with other men.
(b) Joanie's bad cooking.
(c) Joanie's excessive gambling.
(d) Joanie's excessive drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the job the narrator applied for under the name, Jean de Daumier-Smith, pay?

2. Who is claiming to be an admiral?

3. Who thinks all Americans despise tea?

4. Why does the narrator write a letter to Mr. Yoshoto?

5. What does Sandra worry about weighing around the boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Arthur call Lee in the first place of Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes?

2. Why does Arthur want to move to Connecticut?

3. Why does Lionel run away so often?

4. What does Arthur do for a living? How does the reader know?

5. Why is Sandra so worried about Lionel when he runs away in Down at the Dinghy?

6. How does Boo Boo handle Lionel's habit of running away?

7. Why is the narrator so taken by Esme?

8. Why does the narrator lie in his lengthy application letter to the art school in Montreal?

9. Why is the narrator so taken with Sister Irma?

10. Who does Lee think Joanie goes with after the party?

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