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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. Who quarrels with Ward in his office, threatening divorce?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Annabelle.
(c) Gertrude.
(d) Greta.

2. Who helps Johnny get a job at the New York Herald?
(a) Mr. Sinclair.
(b) Mr. Oppenheimer.
(c) Mr. Hill.
(d) Mr. Strang.

3. What does Charley do with the pills?
(a) Flushes them down a toilet.
(b) Eats them himself.
(c) Throws them away.
(d) Gives them to Emiscah.

4. When Eleanor changes residences, who is her wealthy new friend?
(a) Penny Cluse.
(b) Lara Schultz.
(c) Miss Eliza Perkins.
(d) Mrs. Fields.

5. What is the name of the man who occupies the upper berth of the train compartment that Janey is traveling in?
(a) Buck Saunders.
(b) Fainy McCreary.
(c) Samuel Clemens.
(d) John Booth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Janey go to her sister's wedding?

2. Where is Eleanor Stoddard born and raised?

3. In the Camera Eye section in pages 193-214, where does Dos Passos talk about life?

4. Who is the friend that contacts Eleanor and Eveline to come and assist him on a play?

5. After graduating high school, where did Charley move?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Janey first arrives in New York, what is her initial impression?

2. What does Ward want in his line of work, and how does he achieve it?

3. How does Janey change when she lives in New York?

4. What does Eleanor do to conceal her upbringing?

5. How did Janey become the personal secretary of J. Ward Moorehouse?

6. What does Charley do for work in Minneapolis when he moves there?

7. When Mac arrives in Mexico City, what changes does he experience in his employment?

8. What happens that makes Janey feel that she has made the "big time" at work?

9. After Ward leaves Annabelle, where does he live, and what is life like there?

10. How does Mac act in a similar fashion in Mexico City as he did in California?

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