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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his return, what does Dale Hawthorne do while he recites in public?
(a) He gesticulates.
(b) He avoids the eyes of his listeners.
(c) He cries and speaks carefully.
(d) He curses the gods.

2. A few nights after his lunch with Phoebe, what does Jack notice when he comes into the kitchen after work one evening?
(a) His mother is asleep on the couch.
(b) His sister is practicing her piano.
(c) All of the lights are on.
(d) The house is unusually quiet.

3. What happens when the Yegudkins are on their way to Siberia?
(a) They are returned to Kerensky.
(b) They are shot and left for dead.
(c) They are put in work camps.
(d) They are picked up by soldiers and brought to Kiev.

4. How old is Yegudkin when we meet him?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) Fifty.

5. Where does Jack take his French horn lessons?
(a) The New School.
(b) The Julliard School.
(c) New York University.
(d) The Eastman School of Music.

6. Who takes Yegudkin and his wife away from their home?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The Polish National Army.
(c) The Bolsheviks.
(d) The Army of the United States.

7. What does Jack's aunt say to him while he is standing in the doorway?
(a) "Jackie, come in. Your fatehr is glad to see you."
(b) "Jackie, come in. Your father is ill."
(c) "Jackie, come in. It's all over. You dad's come home."
(d) "Jackie, come in. Everything is fine now."

8. What does Jack have tucked under his arms as he starts for home?
(a) His horn and his coat.
(b) His horn and his lunch.
(c) HIs horn and his music.
(d) His horn and his hat.

9. Who does Jack see sitting with his father when he opens the living room door?
(a) His uncles, his mother, some field hands, and some friends.
(b) His mother, his sister, his uncle and his aunt, and two cousins.
(c) HIs sister his uncle, the neighbor and some field hands.
(d) His mother, his aunt, the police, and his cousins.

10. What makes Jack turn his head and look up while he is thinking and preparing the cows for milking in the barn?
(a) HIs uncle speaks to him.
(b) His mother come to talk to him.
(c) His cousin asks him a question.
(d) One of the farmhands needs help.

11. Where and when does Jack refuse to play his horn?
(a) In his home for his friends.
(b) In the neighborhood or in the school band on holidays.
(c) At church or on street corners after dinner.
(d) At church or at home for guests.

12. When Jack reaches the street after his lesson, what does he do?
(a) Puts down his horn case and lights a cigarette.
(b) Puts down his horn case and buys a hotdog from the vendor.
(c) Puts down his horn case and wipes away his tears.
(d) Puts down his horn case and calls home.

13. What does Jack use each night to take off his boots?
(a) A bootjack.
(b) He just slides out of them.
(c) A crowbar.
(d) His hands.

14. Where do the Yegudkins live in America?
(a) Rochester, Indiana
(b) Rochester, New Jersey
(c) Rochester, Minnesota
(d) Rochester, New York

15. What is in the shallow drawer of Yegudkin's desk in his office?
(a) Reeds for instruments.
(b) Letters from family in Russia.
(c) Tools for repairing horns.
(d) Mouthpieces for horns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack's mother say about his horn playing?

2. What does Jack know as he begins his walk down the street toward home?

3. What does Yegudkin look like?

4. What does the person in the barn say to him while he is working with the cows?

5. Since his return home, what about Dale's public readings does Jack disdain?

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