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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (pages 26-44).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second prized item that Flan checks at the top of the play?
(a) The first-edition Dickens
(b) The two-sided painting
(c) The water color of the dog
(d) The Victorian inkwell

2. When Flan mentions that Geoffrey is from South Africa, Ouisa needles him for sounding how?
(a) Sensational
(b) Contentious
(c) Fatalist
(d) Portentous

3. What is Geoffrey's wife's name?
(a) Sylvia
(b) Diana
(c) Ellen
(d) Christine

4. Which hotel is Poitier checking into in the morning, according to Paul?
(a) The Waldorf-Astoria
(b) The Sherry
(c) The Bowery
(d) The Gramercy Park

5. What does Paul's thesis conclude is "God's gift" to us (34)?
(a) Hope
(b) Imagination
(c) Free Choice
(d) Other people

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Ouisa and Flan address in the first half of this section?

2. Which of the following prominent New York families is not one that Paul mentions considering before deciding to come to the Kittredges?

3. In what city was Sidney Poitier born?

4. In Paul's description of his father, Sidney Poitier claims that growing up his family was so poor they did not even own what?

5. In what country does Paul say he grew up?

(see the answer key)

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