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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Bruce knocks on the door of the house?
(a) He does not knock on the door.
(b) No one answers.
(c) He wakes everybody in the house next door.
(d) A new family lives there.

2. What restricted the intimate moments between Bruce and Nola?
(a) Nola's mother.
(b) Bruce's father.
(c) Not much alone time.
(d) She had a schizophrenic personality.

3. What does Mature Bruce think of Nola now?
(a) She was heartless.
(b) She was the love of his life.
(c) She was brilliant in every way.
(d) She was an uneducated woman.

4. Whose wedding to Bruce and Nola plan to attend?
(a) Jim's.
(b) Joe's.
(c) Chet's.
(d) Nola's sister's.

5. How had Bruce viewed Joe's father when Bruce was a boy?
(a) As a hero.
(b) As an average guy.
(c) As a bum.
(d) As unattainable.

6. Who had Bruce given the item in #110 to wear?
(a) Joe.
(b) Jim.
(c) Nola.
(d) Chet.

7. Bruce recalls that he had gone home in January for what reason?
(a) Chet died.
(b) Mr. Mason died.
(c) Nola got married.
(d) To celebrate the new year.

8. What does Mature Bruce think that Nola would not have appreciated?
(a) Fine jewelry.
(b) The books he loaned her.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Touring Europe.

9. The author uses the literary technique of ______________ to show Nola's future relationship with Bailey.
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Simile.

10. Why had Nola's ex-boyfriend come to visit her?
(a) To see if she could love him again.
(b) To return some of her things.
(c) To say goodbye before going to New York.
(d) To ask her to marry him.

11. Nola's family could be called ___________.
(a) Upscale.
(b) Hicks.
(c) Aesthetes.
(d) Average.

12. How was Nola during Bruce's home visit in January?
(a) Desperate for him.
(b) Sullen.
(c) Nonchalant.
(d) Overjoyed.

13. Why was Bruce anxious to leave Nola's sister's wedding?
(a) To get away from her crazy relatives.
(b) To get back to school.
(c) To change into comfortable clothes.
(d) To spend the night with Nola.

14. Who was Bill Binnion?
(a) Bruce's first boss.
(b) Bruce's English professor.
(c) Bruce's football coach.
(d) Bruce's godfather.

15. With whom does Bruce believe Nola had made love before him?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Seth.
(c) Her high school boyfriend.
(d) Her neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field would Bruce be continuing his education?

2. Bruce realizes the box was not packed by Aunt Margaret but had been returned to him from _______________.

3. Where did Bill Binnion advise Bruce to go after college?

4. What does Bruce believe about Nola and the first time he made love to her?

5. What had been the only true aspiration Bruce had for himself?

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