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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Rick and Elizabeth do to make money in New York?
(a) Temp in offices
(b) Busk in the subway
(c) Turn tricks
(d) Wait tables

2. Which Massachusetts college does Trent Conway attend?
(a) MIT
(b) Holy Cross
(c) Boston University
(d) Amherst

3. At which movie theater does Ouisa say she will meet Paul to take him to the police?
(a) The 42nd Street
(b) The Kip's Bay
(c) The Waverly
(d) The Union Square

4. Which actress does Elizabeth fear she resembles too much?
(a) Liv Ullman
(b) Katherine Hepburn
(c) Ingrid Bergman
(d) Sophia Loren

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

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

7. According to Donald Barthelme, what is the art form of the twentieth century?
(a) Cubism
(b) Found object
(c) Collage
(d) Abstract expressionism

8. What type of law does Kitty's "friend" practice?
(a) Theatrical law
(b) Maritime law
(c) Patent law
(d) Divorce law

9. According to Kitty what famous starlet used the alias Harriet Brown at hotels?
(a) Mae West
(b) Greta Garbo
(c) Audrey Hepburn
(d) Vivien Leigh

10. Near the end of the play, Ouisa that she has plenty of color in her life, but none of this?
(a) Passion
(b) Form
(c) Shading
(d) Structure

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

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

13. What key information about Paul does Ouisa not have in her search for him?
(a) His charges
(b) His name
(c) His arresting officer
(d) His age

14. On what holiday do Larkin and Kitty witness Rick's suicide?
(a) Halloween
(b) Valentine's Day
(c) New Years Eve
(d) Labor Day

15. Which of the following is not a college that Paul lists Flan's "new" children attending?
(a) Columbia
(b) Harvard
(c) Andover
(d) Yale

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Paul drinking when Dr. Fine confronts him at the brownstone?

2. What does Paul say he wants from the Kittredges in this section?

3. In this section, which parent repeatedly states that they don't want to know what their children are doing?

4. In this section, Doug tells his father that his mother says sleeping with him was like sleeping with what food?

5. What adjective do Flan and Paul repeatedly use to describe the dull part of art dealing?

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