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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. At what skill is Dick becoming more proficient?
(a) Investing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Negotiating.
(d) Coaching.

2. Dick decides that if something had to be damaged in the storm he would prefer it to be _________________.
(a) His house.
(b) His car.
(c) His boat dock.
(d) His boat.

3. Where is May when Dick tells her about his affair?
(a) Driving to the grocery.
(b) In the garden at their house.
(c) In a cafe.
(d) Watching TV in the family room.

4. What do Dick and Elsie talk about in the blue canoe?
(a) Dick's boat.
(b) Elsie's pregnancy.
(c) Dick's divorce.
(d) Elsie's new job.

5. Dick asks Parker if he had sex with Marie because _________________________.
(a) He loves her.
(b) She came on to him.
(c) He was bored.
(d) Schuyler was too greedy in the drug deal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dick long to be for some stability in his life?

2. With what does Dick offer to help Elsie?

3. Where does Dick go to wait out the hurricane?

4. What is the program Dick watches at The Neptune?

5. Why does May want the money from Dick?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Schuyler's documentary put Dick in an unfavorable light?

2. How does the damage done to Dick's house mirror the damage to himself?

3. Why does May ask Dick for $100?

4. How does the strain of Dick's infidelity begin to weigh on his mind?

5. Why is Dick confused about May's comments about what women want in their lives?

6. Why does Dick continue to feel instability on land, especially after discovering Marie having sex with Parker?

7. How does Dick feel himself becoming more like the people he used to hate?

8. Explain the irony of Dick's new assertiveness with Parker.

9. How does Elsie interpret Dick's comment that they are similar to Marie and Parker?

10. What news does Dick learn when he overhears a conversation between Elsie and Mary?

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