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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bart get home from the New Year's Eve party?

2. On January 11th, where does Bart meet Magliore's men?

3. What time do the men come to take possession of Bart's home?

4. Where does Bart find Charlie's clothes?

5. What is the name of Charlie's nursery school teacher?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bart think about when he first sees Mary at the New Year's Eve party?

2. What happens to allow Bart to admit that he is crazy?

3. Why did people look at Bart funny when he withdrew over thirty thousand dollars from the bank?

4. What specific information does Fenner have on Bart to force a faster sale on Bart's home?

5. Why is Bart's backyard different this winter than it has been in the past?

6. Why is Bart so upset at Steve Ordner regarding Vinnie Mason?

7. What is Bart's mental and verbal reaction to Mary asking if he has slept with anyone since they separated?

8. What precautions does Bart make prior to the police and men from the city showing up?

9. What were differences between the way Mary and Bart handled Charlie's first day at nursery school?

10. What does Bart do, and think about, while looking at Charlie's clothes in the attic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the chapter "Stoptime, January 20, 1974" written as one long rambling thought?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Bart's relationship with Phil Drake.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Bart's climb from low-man-on-the-totem-pole to office executive at Blue Ribbon Laundry.

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