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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Flan characterize the request he makes his children in this section?
(a) Special project
(b) Scavenger hunt
(c) Detective search
(d) Homework assignment

3. What do Flan and Ouisa ask Tess not to tell her sister at Groton?
(a) They will not be coming to her graduation
(b) Paul used her toothbrush
(c) The hustler was in her bed
(d) They sold her favorite antique doll

4. Which of the following is not an adjective the children use to describe their parents' request in this section?
(a) Pathetic
(b) Racist
(c) Humiliating
(d) Hateful

5. What does Tess suggest her mother should have done with Paul?
(a) Have him arrested
(b) Never let him in
(c) Adopt him
(d) Slept with him

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

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

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

9. What does Paul say he wants from the Kittredges in this section?
(a) Money
(b) Friendship
(c) Freedom
(d) Acceptance

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

11. Through what letter of Trent's address book does Paul get before leaving him?
(a) F
(b) S
(c) L
(d) P

12. Who spits on Flan at the end of this section?
(a) A policeman
(b) His doorman
(c) Ouisa
(d) The hustler

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

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

15. How does Trent ironically describe his rich friends to Paul?
(a) Hopelessly romantic
(b) Desperate and longing
(c) Hand to mouth
(d) A lost generation

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of his monologue about thie imagination in this section, Paul says that it is not what?

2. According to Woody in this section, his parents bough him the pink shirt when he outgrew his other shirts because of what?

3. At which movie theater does Ouisa say she will meet Paul to take him to the police?

4. Who does the operator at the Sherry assume Ouisa is when she calls?

5. How many high school friends does Tess estimate were into drugs, gangs, and homosexuality?

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