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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 do the goggles that are thrown overboard once belong to?
(a) Lionel.
(b) Boo Boo.
(c) Uncle Webb and Uncle Seymour.
(d) Lionel's father.

2. Why is the narrator of De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period going to art school?
(a) To make Bobby happy.
(b) To meet women.
(c) To help his commercial art career.
(d) To fill the time during the day.

3. Which famous French artist does the narrator claim to know personally?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Manet.
(c) Monet.
(d) Cezanne.

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

5. Who is Lissberg?
(a) Joanie's lover.
(b) The attorney for the plantiff in Arthur's case.
(c) Arthur's client.
(d) Lee's boss.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator in the story, For Esme - with Love and Squalor, receive the wedding invitation?

3. Where does Arthur want to move?

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

5. Where does the narrator think Esme should wear her watch instead of her wrist?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the tea room likely suit the narrator as a place to spend his last few hours in the town rather than the Red Cross recreation room?

3. Why does Lionel run away so often?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Arthur want to move to Connecticut?

10. Why does Esme's long and complicated letter soothe the narrator more than one from his family?

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