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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. How does the author describe The Junto?
(a) As if it were the setting in a dream.
(b) Without color or feeling.
(c) Almost as if it's alive.
(d) Without many concrete references.

2. What does Boots tell Lutie when she asks him how he avoided the draft?
(a) He says that something is wrong with his ear.
(b) He says that he was too young at the time of the draft.
(c) He says that something is wrong with his heart.
(d) He says that he has asthma.

3. Of what is Boots speaking when he says, "Wrapped up and tied up for as long as you want it"?
(a) Himself as a offer to Lutie.
(b) His car as a gift to Lutie.
(c) Lutie's acceptance of the job as the band's singer.
(d) His offer of free drinks to Lutie whenever she visits The Casino.

4. What does Lutie notice about Jones' apartment?
(a) Lutie notes how the super's apartment seems to have no personal touches that would make it feel like a home.
(b) Lutie notes how colorfully the super's apartment is decorated.
(c) Lutie notes how the super's apartment is too chilly.
(d) Lutie notes how dirty and unkempt the super's apartment is.

5. While washing her blouse and realizing Jones has been through her possessions, what is Lutie sure of?
(a) That she will not wear the blouse for a very long time.
(b) That she misses her husband, Jim.
(c) That she must confront Jones.
(d) That she is deathly afraid of Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lutie and Bub currently live?

2. What does Lutie think about Jones?

3. How does Bub feel about being slapped by Lutie?

4. What does Boots hand the motorcycle policeman when he is pulled over?

5. Why does Min's visit to David go so well?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Boots' responses to how he gets gas and how he avoided the draft serve the reader? What is the reader able to gather about Boots from his answers?

2. How does Min's relationship with Jones reflect the relationships in her past?

3. Chapter 2 introduces Mrs. Pizzini as the character who provides a letter of reference for Lutie. Mrs. Pizzini shares some advice with Lutie about the effects of working while raising a family: "It's best that the man do the work when the babies are young. And when the man is young. Not good for the woman to work when she's young. Not good for the man." Why does Lutie originally brush Mrs. Pizzini off and then later recall the advice over and over again?

4. In Lutie's dream, she is the one being asked to "unloose" the neighborhood people. Why has Lutie has been given this charge in the dream?

5. Describe how Jones and Lutie view one another.

6. After leaving Jim, Lutie never reaches out to him again. How does this single fact reflect Lutie's strength?

7. Lutie secures the job at the Chandlers', but she is unable to share her joy with her husband. Why is this?

8. While riding with Boots, Lutie comes to the conclusion that it would be better to be born with no brain than to understand everything you cannot reach. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

9. Chapter 5 is written from Min's point of view. Why has the author chosen to use different narrators?

10. What does Lutie feels she sees in the eyes of the neighborhood people, specifically the people she sees in the emergency room?

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