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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Louise?
(a) A fan.
(b) Cash's boss.
(c) Cash's sister.
(d) Cash's wife.

2. Who has a bad temper in the Cash Bentley story?
(a) Louise.
(b) Cash's children.
(c) Cash.
(d) Cash's boss.

3. What frustrates Louise?
(a) The family's finances.
(b) Cash's fame.
(c) Her children.
(d) Cash's family.

4. Whose gin does Amy pour down the sink?
(a) Rosemary's.
(b) Her sister's.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) Her father's.

5. How is Mrs. Ryan related to Clarissa?
(a) She is her mother-in-law.
(b) Mother.
(c) Grandmother.
(d) Aunt.

6. What upsets Irene?
(a) When the radio stops working.
(b) When their children won't listen to music.
(c) When CDs are invented.
(d) When Jim says he hates music.

7. Who will Clarissa be spending the summer with?
(a) Her boyfriend.
(b) Her husband.
(c) She will be alone.
(d) Her mother-in-law.

8. Who will do anything to keep the peace in the Pomeroy family?
(a) Mrs. Pomeroy.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Chaddy.
(d) Diana.

9. What kind of story is the one with Irene and Jim Westcott?
(a) Tragic.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Drama.
(d) Dark.

10. What kind of music do Irene and Jim like?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Classical.
(c) Country.
(d) Hip-hop.

11. What is the setting for the story about the Pomeroy family?
(a) A restuarant in Laud's Head.
(b) An apartment in Laud's Head.
(c) A small house in Laud's Head.
(d) A seaside mansion in Laud's Head.

12. What is Cash's injury?
(a) A broken leg.
(b) Broken arm.
(c) Twisted ankle.
(d) Broken neck.

13. What item does Jim come home with one day?
(a) A new record.
(b) A new radio that is bigger.
(c) A TV.
(d) A new CD.

14. What does James Clancy begin to understand about Mr. Rowantree?
(a) That he hates being social.
(b) That he is married.
(c) That he is cheating on lots of girlfriends.
(d) That he is gay.

15. Who do the other children in the Pomeroy family dislike?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Diana.
(d) Chaddy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diana call Lawrence?

2. What is Lawrence's childhood nickname?

3. Who continue to have terrible disagreements in "Clancy and the Tower of Babel"?

4. What grade is Amy Lawton in?

5. Who does James Clancy talk to about his job and the people he meets there?

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