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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. Who wins the race back to the house at the end of the story, Down at the Dinghy?
(a) Lionel.
(b) Lionel's father.
(c) Boo Boo.
(d) Lionel's neighbor.

2. What course do 60 American enlisted men take in the story, For Esme - With Love and Squalor?
(a) Parachute jumper training.
(b) Post D-Day training.
(c) Weapons training.
(d) Pre-Invasion training.

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) A croissant.
(d) Cinnamon toast.

4. Whose work does the narrator still recall clearly after many years?
(a) R. Howard Ridgefield.
(b) Mr. Yoshoto.
(c) Bambi Kramer.
(d) Sister Irma.

5. What does the narrator's mother-in-law want him to send her?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Tea.
(c) Cashmere yarn.
(d) Olives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bobby move the family to Paris?

2. Arthur says the only people he knows in New York are Lee and a bunch of ________?

3. What is the farthest distance Lionel ever runs away to?

4. Why does it take Esme so long to write her first letter to the narrator?

5. Why doesn't Arthur leave his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to the narrator after he leaves the training course?

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

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

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

6. Why does Bobby move the family to Paris in 1929?

7. Why does Sister Irma withdraw from classes at the art school?

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

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

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

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