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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Doug go to school?
(a) Dartmouth
(b) Harvard
(c) Columbia
(d) Cornell

2. What painting does Elizabeth suggest Paul tell Flan he has to give him?
(a) The Ambassadors
(b) Sunnday on the Grande Jatte
(c) The Mona Lisa
(d) Starry Night

3. How does Paul describe the imagination in this section?
(a) Your child's voice
(b) Your ever-badgering voice
(c) Your sunset voice
(d) Your 4 AM voice

4. In this section Paul admits that his Salinger speech was lifted from a commencement address at what college?
(a) Stanford
(b) Groton
(c) University of Pennsylvania
(d) Northwestern

5. Which of Chekhov's three sister's does Elizabeth decide she wants to play first?
(a) Masha
(b) She cannot decide
(c) Olga
(d) Irina

6. To what literary character does Ouisa compare Trent Conway in this section?
(a) Iago
(b) Henry Higgins
(c) Scheherazade
(d) Madame Bovary

7. What information does the Detective bring to Flan and Ouisa in this section?
(a) Sidney Poitier has called him
(b) Elizabeth will press charges
(c) He is transferring off the case
(d) Paul has been captured

8. At the end of their first meeting with their children, Flan protests to Tess that she is not a part of a conspiracy but what?
(a) An understanding
(b) A secret
(c) A relationship
(d) A family

9. Which of the following options is not one suggested in this section for tracking down Sidney Poitier?
(a) CAA
(b) Celebrity Service
(c) Who's Who
(d) A library

10. Which Greek playwright is Ouisa said to have mockingly mentioned after seeing Cats?
(a) Aristophanes
(b) Euripides
(c) Aeschylus
(d) Sophocles

11. What offer does Paul make Ouisa when she is trying to find out where he is?
(a) He will be their house-keeper
(b) He will turn himself in
(c) He will give them back their fifty dollars
(d) He will come over and make dinner

12. What mystery writer does Flan invoke as the parents try to figure out what they have in common?
(a) Dashiell Hammett
(b) Patricia Highsmith
(c) Raymond Chandler
(d) Agatha Christie

13. Who does the operator at the Sherry assume Ouisa is when she calls?
(a) Another hotel
(b) A director
(c) A journalist
(d) A fan

14. Which family is the first that Paul asks Trent about in this section?
(a) Kittredge
(b) Larkin
(c) Fine
(d) Conway

15. Who is the publish of Poitier's autobiography This Life?
(a) Pearson
(b) Schuster and Schuster
(c) Knopf
(d) Random House

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state does Paul tell Rick and Elizabeth he sill finally reunite with his father?

2. Which of the following is not an adjective the children use to describe their parents' request in this section?

3. Which chic New York eatery does Paul "treat" Rick to in this section?

4. To what object from the play does Paul make reference in the final moment?

5. According to Paul in this section, Cezanne tried to find the rules from which art movement?

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