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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 is one of Joanie's best traits?
(a) Picking out suits.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Writing.
(d) Cleaning.

2. Where does Arthur want to move?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) New York City.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Boston.

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

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

5. What is the narrator's most traumatic move in the story, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period?
(a) Back to Paris from New Jersey.
(b) From New York to Paris.
(c) Back to New York from Paris.
(d) From New Jersey to Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the flashes of light the narrator ignores on his walk on the last day of training?

2. What does Lionel think a 'kike' is?

3. Why does Arthur say his marriage isn't working?

4. Where is Joanie throughout the story, Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes?

5. What is the narrator's first assignment from Mr. Yoshoto?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lionel run away so often?

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

3. How does the story, Down at the Dinghy, end?

4. Why is the narrator so taken by Esme?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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