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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Kaplan say about all the young people?
(a) They are naive.
(b) They need to go to school.
(c) They too serious.
(d) They are so unhappy.

2. What does the policeman not want anyone to do?
(a) Go into the Maurrant's apartment.
(b) Leave or enter the building.
(c) Stay outside.
(d) Wait for Mr. Maurrant to return.

3. Why does Mr. Maurrant stop telling Sam why he is not going to Stanford for work?
(a) When he realizes that the shades are drawn to his apartment.
(b) He sees Rose walking down the street.
(c) He loses his train of thought.
(d) He sees his wife and Mr. Sankey walking down the street.

4. What does Sam suggest that Rose and he both do?
(a) End their lives together.
(b) Run away.
(c) Get married.
(d) Go on a date.

5. What does Rose try to explain to Shirley that she has not meant to do?
(a) Lead Sam on.
(b) Hurt her feelings.
(c) Distract Sam in anyway.
(d) Trick Sam into liking her.

6. Who does Mr. Sankey awkwardly bump into coming out of the building?
(a) Mr. Buchanan.
(b) Mrs. Jones.
(c) Sam.
(d) Vincent.

7. What does Fred tell the crowd?
(a) A man has shot his wife and another man.
(b) The shots were a false alarm.
(c) Mrs. Maurrant and another woman are dead.
(d) Two men are dead in this apartment.

8. What is Mrs. Maurrant making for Mrs. Buchanan?
(a) Some tea.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A present.
(d) Some soup.

9. What is heard from Ms. Olsen?
(a) A gasp.
(b) A laugh.
(c) A gun shot.
(d) A scream.

10. Why does Rose ask Sam if there is a certain way she should act in a synagogue?
(a) The funeral that she will be attending today takes place in a synagogue.
(b) She is thinking about converting to Judaism.
(c) She is curious about his faith.
(d) She is going to a Jewish wedding.

11. What happens after another shot is heard?
(a) Mr. Maurrant runs out of the building.
(b) Mrs. Maurrant jumps out the window.
(c) The neighbors rush into the apartment.
(d) The marshal yells for someone to get an ambulance.

12. How does Mrs. Maurrant respond when her daughter implies that Mr. Maurrant may be more kind, if her mother would not have a relationship with someone outside this marriage?
(a) She knows Rose and the neighbors are right.
(b) She tells Rose that she cannot believe that she is acting like the others. She thought Rose would be the one person who would understand.
(c) She agrees with Rose.
(d) She is surprised that Rose is so observant.

13. What does the policeman do when he arrives?
(a) Goes into the Maurrant's apartment.
(b) Looks for the marshal and Fred.
(c) Calls for backup.
(d) He goes down into the cellar with two men from the crowd.

14. What is noticeable about Mr. Jones, the next morning?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) He is in a bad mood.
(c) He is headed to work.
(d) He is up early.

15. Why is Mrs. Maurrant tired?
(a) She has been at work all night.
(b) She has been helping Mrs. Buchanan nearly all night.
(c) She has had to deal with her moody husband.
(d) She did not sleep well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam urge Mrs. Jones to do?

2. What does Mrs. Maurrant tell her daughter she has always tried to do?

3. How does Rose change the subject with Sam?

4. According to Shirley, what is made more difficult by the heat?

5. Why does Rose suggest the milkman not come around as often?

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