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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 do the injuries force Cash to do?
(a) Talk to his parents.
(b) Get a new job.
(c) Talk to his kids.
(d) Spend more time at home.

2. What do the Bentley's struggle with?
(a) Crime.
(b) Fame.
(c) Sickness.
(d) Money.

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

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

5. How soon did Ralph and Laura get married after meeting?
(a) One month later.
(b) Three months later.
(c) Six months later.
(d) Three years later.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Cash injured?

2. Who does most of the care for Amy?

3. What does the narrator in "Goodbye My Brother" do for a living?

4. How old is the Malloy's daughter?

5. What does Jim promise Irene?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Clancy almost get fired?

2. Why does Irene hate the new radio?

3. What type of parents are the Lawtons, in "The Sorrows of Gin?"

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

5. How does Clancy do when he first starts his job in "Clancy in the Tower of Babel?"

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

7. What kind of a housekeeper is Rosemary?

8. Describe the shared love of Irene and Jim Westcott.

9. Why don't the other Pomeroy children like Lawrence?

10. How does the story of Irene and Jim Westcott get its name?

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