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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did most of the work on the telephone pole that Bernie had ruined during his accident?
(a) No one fixed it.
(b) Steve.
(c) Jim.
(d) Bernie.

2. What does Bernie say that he wanted to invite Steve in for when he wakes up the next day?
(a) A job offer.
(b) Cigarette.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Marijuana.

3. In the beginning of this scene, Bernie points out that he cannot work for the _____________ anymore.
(a) School.
(b) Phone Company.
(c) Phone center.
(d) Restaurant.

4. What is the most important institution in America, according to Carol, as she shares her feelings with Bernie?
(a) School.
(b) Children.
(c) Work.
(d) Home.

5. What is helping to ensure that Bernie is doing okay with the money he's making at the time of the story?
(a) Change on the street.
(b) An inheritance.
(c) Recycling cans.
(d) Disability.

6. Bernie and Carol discuss the ___________, saying that they should get going.
(a) Bus times.
(b) Train schedule.
(c) Weather.
(d) Sports teams.

7. Bernie suggests that Carol should call ___________ and then they'll leave.
(a) Leslie.
(b) Bernie.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Gerry.

8. Bernie points out, "What's ____________isn't going nowhere."
(a) Between us.
(b) Behind us.
(c) Before us.
(d) Around us.

9. Bernie compares his anger after the divorce to his anger at the ________________ for not taking care of him.
(a) Restaurant.
(b) Government.
(c) Phone company.
(d) AA sponsor.

10. Bernie says that he was asked to come into work to cover for someone who ____________, but he turned it down.
(a) Was sick.
(b) He hated.
(c) Had a family emergency.
(d) Was having a baby.

11. What was in the incident report that Bernie thinks caused him to be fired from his job?
(a) That he was a good lineman.
(b) The he was late.
(c) That he was drinking.
(d) Nothing.

12. Carol says that coming from a ____________ is what has caused troubles in her life with Gerry.
(a) Broken home.
(b) Abusive background.
(c) Bad school.
(d) Single mom.

13. Bernie admits that he missed Carol like ______________ when he left her and her mother.
(a) Every second.
(b) Never.
(c) Crazy.
(d) Nothing.

14. Bernie tells Carol that he wanted to call her on the day she turned ____________.
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 16.

15. What happens to cause the wreck with the car, according to the story of Bernie?
(a) An argument in the car.
(b) A deer.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Snow and falling asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernie points out, "I mean, I could come looking for you after you were _______________."

2. What is Bernie's response to the admission of Carol in #152?

3. What day of the week does Bernie tell Carol that he never works at his current job?

4. Who does Bernie say that Carol would have liked and whose house he went to up in Provincetown?

5. Bernie points out that you have to be where you are, while you're there or you're ____________.

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