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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older is Helen than Peter?
(a) She is three years older.
(b) She is five years older.
(c) She is ten years older.
(d) She is fifteen years older.

2. Why has Peter tracked Helen down?
(a) He wants Helen to marry him.
(b) Jo owes him money.
(c) Helen owes him money.
(d) He wants Jo to marry him.

3. Why have Helen and Jo moved again?
(a) Helen is running away from a man.
(b) Helen found a better apartment in a nicer neighborhood.
(c) Jo is running away from a man.
(d) Jo insisted upon getting her own room, so they moved.

4. How old is Jo's boyfriend?
(a) He is eighteen.
(b) He is thirty.
(c) He is twenty-two.
(d) He is twenty-seven.

5. What is the climate like in the new apartment according to Helen?
(a) The apartment is terribly muggy, like a steamhouse.
(b) The apartment is cold and drafty, a shelter to the four winds.
(c) The apartment is stuffy.
(d) The apartment is swelteringly hot.

6. What does Jo notice about Peter's brother's wife in her wedding photo?
(a) The woman is wearing dark glasses.
(b) The woman looks remarkably like Helen.
(c) The woman's dress was not wearing a traditional wedding dress.
(d) The woman was pregnant at her wedding.

7. How old does Jo's boyfriend think that women are born?
(a) Five years old.
(b) Three thousand years old.
(c) Seventy years old.
(d) Brand new, just like everyone else.

8. What is Peter's last name?
(a) Peter.
(b) Jones.
(c) Smith.
(d) Johnson.

9. What are Peter and Helen celebrating?
(a) Jo is graduating from high school.
(b) Helen is pregnant.
(c) Peter got a new job.
(d) Peter found them a house.

10. What does Helen tell Peter she is giving up?
(a) She is giving up sex and men.
(b) She is giving up coffee.
(c) She is giving up smoking cigarettes.
(d) She is giving up eating sweets.

11. What does Peter have in his mouth?
(a) A cheroot.
(b) A cigar.
(c) A toothpick.
(d) A sandwich.

12. Does the apartment have a bathroom?
(a) No, the outhouse is outside.
(b) Yes, but the bathroom is communal and down the hall.
(c) Yes, but the bathroom has no door in the apartment.
(d) No, the tenants have to use the resturant next door.

13. What specific kind of dark scares Jo?
(a) The darkness outside.
(b) The darkness of caves.
(c) The darkness in schools.
(d) The darkness inside houses.

14. What does Helen reveal about Jo's father?
(a) She reveals that Peter actually is Jo's biological father.
(b) She reveals that Jo's father is the crown Prince of England.
(c) She reveals that Jo's father is living right down the block.
(d) She reveals that Jo's father was mentally challenged.

15. How does Jo make Helen's coffee?
(a) Jo makes the coffee very weak, because she knows Helen likes it strong.
(b) Jo makes Helen's coffee with sugar, because she knows Helen hates sugar.
(c) Jo makes Helen's coffee very strong, because she knows Helen likes it weak.
(d) Jo makes Helen's coffee with cream, because she knows Helen takes her coffee with cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jo's boyfriend's plan for the evening when they part?

2. What is the title of one of the movies Helen sees in the paper?

3. Where does Helen offer to send Jo?

4. In which branch of the armed forces did Peter serve?

5. What excuse does Jo give when it is time for her to go?

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