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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Katey do with the flapper jacket?
(a) She puts it on consignment.
(b) She takes it home.
(c) She gives it to a stranger.
(d) She throws it in the trash.

2. In what way does Wallace's behavior change after he has spent some time with Katey?
(a) His halting way of speaking comes to an end.
(b) He becomes more confident in his ability to woo a woman.
(c) He becomes more interested in sex.
(d) He laughs out loud more often.

3. The police knock on Katey's door in the middle of the night with which person in tow?
(a) Wallace.
(b) Tinker.
(c) Eve.
(d) Dicky.

4. What is Dicky's last name?
(a) Costanza.
(b) Morin.
(c) Bolingbroke.
(d) Vanderwhile.

5. Into whom does Katey run when she is at the party to which Dicky has led her?
(a) Eve.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Tinker.
(d) Anne.

6. Wallace shares with Katey that Tinker had gotten a job as a what before working his way up?
(a) An attorney.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A train conductor.
(d) A clerk.

7. How many maxims are part of the text entitled Rules of Civility?
(a) 86.
(b) 36.
(c) 110.
(d) 93.

8. By what nickname does Bitsy refer to Wallace?
(a) Mac.
(b) Hawkeye.
(c) Montana.
(d) Trapper.

9. When Katey is meeting a friend for lunch, who else does she see in the restaurant?
(a) Grubb.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Anne.
(d) Eve.

10. What word does Wallace use to describe Katey's hair when she takes offense?
(a) Nice.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Super.

11. What action does Katey take in relation to her work on the day she is supposed to meet Tinker?
(a) She calls in sick.
(b) She goes in early.
(c) She quits.
(d) She stays late.

12. To what author does Katey look for inspiration when deciding to have sex with Tinker?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Welty.
(c) Camus.
(d) Joyce.

13. What method does Katey use to get home from the party thrown for the Hollingsworths' son?
(a) She takes the subway.
(b) She rides her bicycle.
(c) Tinker brings her home.
(d) Dicky brings her home.

14. Wallace tells Katey that Tinker had had to leave school for what reason?
(a) Because the curriculum had not been challenging enough.
(b) Because his father had lost everything.
(c) Because he had been mercilessly bullied.
(d) Because he had fallen in love with one of his teachers.

15. When Tinker's father had lost his fortune, what location had the family been forced to leave?
(a) St. Francis.
(b) St. Anthony.
(c) St. Augustus.
(d) St. George.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Katey is getting ready to go to bed at Wolcott's camp, she hears Tinker taking what action?

2. The person with whom Katey is out to lunch corrects Katey about the relationship between Tinker and the woman with him, saying that she is Tinker's what?

3. Mason asks Katey to look over his story and to try to make him sound more like which famous writer?

4. In what manner do Tinker and Katey part after meeting at the coffee shop?

5. Wallace shows Katey a gun like the one that had killed what famous criminal(s)?

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