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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May withhold from Charlie?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Humor.
(d) Sex.

2. What is The Wedding Cake?
(a) An office building.
(b) A wedding chapel.
(c) A house.
(d) A bakery.

3. What do Dick and Elsie do in the mud?
(a) Dig for clams.
(b) Search for lost coins.
(c) Carve their initials.
(d) Make love.

4. With whom did Elsie's father once have an affair?
(a) Aggie Booker.
(b) Maggie Bigelow.
(c) Maggie Beerman.
(d) Aggie Bigelow.

5. What function will Elsie serve for Schuyler's movie?
(a) Historian.
(b) On-screen talent.
(c) Voiceover.
(d) Camerawoman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to sexually arouse Elsie?

2. What does Miss Perry bring with her each year on Dick's birthday?

3. Who meets Parker, Dick and Keith when they dock?

4. How does Dick hurt May's feelings?

5. Where did Dick and his friend, Larry Parker, once take a fifty-five foot boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dick's employment pattern and how does he plan to make money to finish his boat?

2. How does Joxer's bad luck change the immediate future for more than himself?

3. How does Dick misread the message that Elsie sends when she tells him to leave her with the secret of their affair?

4. What is Dick's internal struggle regarding needing people and not wanting to appear that he does?

5. Who is Miss Perry and what is her relationship to Dick and his family?

6. How does Dick justify the loss of his family's land by taking advantage of the relationships he has with wealthy people in the area?

7. Compare and contrast Dick and Elsie's positions regarding legal activities.

8. Explain Dick's thoughts as he begins to understand the complications of the drug smuggling situation with Parker.

9. How does the author show the vulnerable side of Elsie's normally strong personality?

10. What does Parker's cunning behavior begin to signify?

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