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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. Where is Laud's Head?
(a) Maine.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Massachusetts.

2. Who dies at the end of "O Youth and Beauty?"
(a) Louise.
(b) One of the Bentley children.
(c) Cash.
(d) An unamed fan of Cash's.

3. What story revolves around the Pomeroy family?
(a) The Enormous Radio.
(b) O City of Broken Dreams.
(c) Tifty.
(d) Goodbye, My Brother.

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

5. Who told Amy to pour the gin down the sink?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What frustrates Louise?

2. Which story is about Evarts and Alice Malloy?

3. The Whittmores want to have two of what?

4. Where did the Whitemores meet?

5. Who has a bad temper in the Cash Bentley story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ralph and Laura Whittemore feel about money?

2. What does Laura do when she becomes pregnant?

3. Why does Blake fire his secretary in "The Five Forty-Eight?"

4. What is the background of the relationship between Ralph and Laura Whittemore?

5. In "O City of Broken Dreams," how do the Malloys react to interest in the play Evarts has written?

6. How does Clancy almost get fired?

7. What baffles Clancy when he ends up in the hospital?

8. How does Cash feel about his former days as a track star in "O Youth and Beauty?"

9. Who are the Crutchmans in "The Worm in the Apple?"

10. What do the Pomeroy children do to irk Lawrence?

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