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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Woody in this section, his parents bough him the pink shirt when he outgrew his other shirts because of what?
(a) Weightlifting
(b) Puberty
(c) Football
(d) Overeating

2. Which notorious public figure does Tess invoke to describe what her parents are asking her to do?
(a) Franco
(b) Stalin
(c) McCarthy
(d) Goebells

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

4. What is Paul drinking when Dr. Fine confronts him at the brownstone?
(a) Scotch
(b) Port
(c) Cognac
(d) Brandy

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

6. In this section, which parent repeatedly states that they don't want to know what their children are doing?
(a) Dr. Fine
(b) Flan
(c) Ouisa
(d) Larkin

7. What arrives with the flowers that Paul sends the Kittredges?
(a) An art print
(b) A bottle of champagne
(c) A pot of jam
(d) A cheese basket

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

9. What is Sidney Poitier's first wife's name?
(a) Sheila
(b) Pat
(c) Claire
(d) Juanita

10. In the second excerpt from This Life that the parents read, what does Poitier warn his readers against doing regarding their children?
(a) Smothering them
(b) Ignoring them
(c) Condescending them
(d) Protecting them

11. Which of the following children does not come down from Harvard in this section?
(a) Tess
(b) Ben
(c) Doug
(d) Woody

12. 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) They sold her favorite antique doll
(d) The hustler was in her bed

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

14. Which of the following is not a type of jam Trent recommends one send to rich people?
(a) Strawberry
(b) Orange
(c) Grapefruit
(d) Peach

15. How do the Kittredges know the Larkin and Kitty?
(a) Geoffrey
(b) Their daughter
(c) One of Flan's former partners
(d) Their sons

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What painting does Elizabeth suggest Paul tell Flan he has to give him?

3. What nationality of clients does Ouisa mistakenly she and Flan are schmoozing before Sotheby's?

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

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

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