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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Dick and Parker talk about when they get out on the water?
(a) What a great job Dick did on the boat.
(b) The money from the drug deal.
(c) Parker's new house plans.
(d) Dick's affair with Elsie.

2. What is May's concern after she learns of his affair?
(a) How she will show her face in public.
(b) What Dick is going to do for the baby.
(c) If Dick has a sexually transmitted disease or not.
(d) What she will tell her sons.

3. Who does Dick call after he learns that a hurricane is on its way?
(a) His insurance agent.
(b) May.
(c) Elsie.
(d) Miss Perry.

4. What does Dick think will be the new driving force for his life?
(a) A new house and another boat.
(b) A new truck and another boat.
(c) A new baby and another boat.
(d) A new job and selling his boat.

5. What does the boatyard manager exclaim when he first sees Charlie's boat?
(a) That the best you got?
(b) Now, that's a boat.
(c) Jesus H. Christ.
(d) Holy shit.

6. What does Dick do in January?
(a) Sells his boat.
(b) Goes to the Gun and Knife Show.
(c) Tells May about his affair.
(d) Asks May for a divorce.

7. Which of the following does Elsie NOT tell Dick?
(a) She got a leave of absence.
(b) She got a promotion.
(c) She is in love with him.
(d) She got a raise.

8. What is the message in the note Dick gets at the co-op?
(a) Watch a specfic television show.
(b) Meet Elsie at her house.
(c) Don't go out on the boat for a few days.
(d) Return home immediately.

9. Where does Elsie offer to go with Dick?
(a) To Maine.
(b) To the Neptune.
(c) To check lobster pots.
(d) To Boston.

10. What is the value of the books Miss Perry has given Dick's boys?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $200.
(c) $10,000
(d) $20,000.

11. What news does Dick overhear Elsie tell Mary?
(a) Elsie is moving away.
(b) Elsie wants to dump Dick.
(c) Elsie is going to tell May about her affair with Dick.
(d) Elsie is pregnant.

12. Why is the documentary unflattering to Dick?
(a) The angles are not good for his profile.
(b) The lighting is very harsh.
(c) He doesn't appear very bright.
(d) He appears to have profited from other's misfortunes.

13. What time of day is it when Dick awakens on his boat?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Late afternoon.
(d) Noon.

14. Why does May want the money from Dick?
(a) To have a beauty treatment.
(b) To buy a birthday gift for him.
(c) To bake holiday foods.
(d) To buy a coat.

15. Which of the following is NOT true as Chapter 46 begins?
(a) The first months of winter are profitable.
(b) Dick and his family are staying at Eddie's.
(c) Elsie calls May to tell her about her affair with Dick.
(d) Dick and his family are having a pleasant winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the boat, the Lydia P.?

2. What does Elsie want to show Dick?

3. What is the person writing in the sand?

4. What do Dick and Eddie purchase for the boat in Chapter 31?

5. Who does May tell Dick has called him?

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