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

2. Who does Lee say is Arthur's worst enemy?
(a) Joanie.
(b) Lee.
(c) Arthur.
(d) Junior.

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

4. Why does Bobby move the family to Paris?
(a) To learn how to speak French.
(b) For his new job.
(c) To escape the Great Depression.
(d) To find a job.

5. Why does Arthur want to move?
(a) To spend more time relaxing.
(b) To get a better job.
(c) To cut Joanie's social life off.
(d) To buy a bigger house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Boo Boo Tannenbaum?

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

3. Why does the narrator stop in front of the church during his walk on the last day of training?

4. Who is Lissberg?

5. Why does the narrator say he hates chairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the narrator so taken by Esme?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Arthur call Lee back and pretend Joanie is finally home?

7. Why does Arthur think his marriage isn't working?

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

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

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

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