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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. Where do Arthur and Lee live?
(a) New York City.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Boston.

2. Where does Lee think the Ellenbogens go after the party?
(a) The Village.
(b) Home.
(c) To the train station.
(d) Up the coast.

3. What does Lionel think a 'kike' is?
(a) A thief.
(b) A saint.
(c) A key chain.
(d) A kite.

4. How much does the job the narrator applied for under the name, Jean de Daumier-Smith, pay?
(a) $288 a month.
(b) $28 a week.
(c) $28 a day.
(d) $288 a week.

5. Who is Miss Megley?
(a) The waitress.
(b) The governess.
(c) The narrator's wife.
(d) The talented young singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bobby move the family to Paris?

2. What does Esme want to read about most?

3. Who is Sandra?

4. What catches the narrator's attention, urging him to go inside the church?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is it ironic that the school closes down for not having a business license?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is the narrator so taken by Esme?

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