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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 Bobby lose everything?
(a) He is robbed.
(b) Wall Street crash of 1929.
(c) Gambling.
(d) He loses his job.

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

3. What does the narrator order with his tea when he sits down in the tea room to read old letters?
(a) A bagel.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Cinnamon toast.
(d) A croissant.

4. What does Arthur think he finds in the closets when he gets home every night?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) A dog.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) Other men.

5. Where do the Ellenborgens live?
(a) New York City.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Arthur want to move?

2. Where does the narrator see the talented young singer, giving him a chance to speak with her?

3. Who throws the key chain into the lake?

4. How many total teeth are pulled from the narrator's mouth throughout the story, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period?

5. What does Esme include with a letter in the package to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lionel cry when he throws the key chain overboard?

2. Why is the narrator so taken by Esme?

3. What do the pickles, key chain and goggles tell us about Lionel?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does the narrator and Bobby move back to New York nine years later?

9. Describe the narrator in For Esme -- with Love and Squalor.

10. Why does the narrator like the bulletin board outside the church so much in For Esme -- with Love and Squalor?

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