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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life” - “Debts”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What money-making opportunity does Dotty present to Freddy?
(a) She wants him to enter a trivia contest.
(b) She wants him to work for her father.
(c) She wants him to get into real estate.
(d) She wants to help him start his own business.

2. Who gives Virginia $10 after he husband left, but tells her not to contact the authorities?
(a) Her husband's mother.
(b) John.
(c) Her husband's brother.
(d) Mrs. Raftery.

3. What reason did Josephine's mother give for her father's departure?
(a) Her mother and father fell out of love.
(b) He left because of the children.
(c) He died.
(d) He left for another woman.

4. What does the narrator think is the only thing she ever really wanted in "Wants"?
(a) To be a different person.
(b) A better husband.
(c) Well-behaved children.
(d) A sailboat.

5. Who tells Faith that she has "done a rotten job" (91) raising her sons in "A Subject of Childhood"?
(a) Clifford.
(b) Richard.
(c) Pallid.
(d) Livid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Peter angry at Anna at the end of "The Pale Pink Roast"?

2. What side job did Rose do in order to pay her rent?

3. Which character in "A Woman, Young and Old" worked at the Paris Coffee House on Saturday?

4. Why did Rose receive a raise, according to the story "Goodbye and Good Luck"?

5. What does Freddy receive in the mail from Dotty at the end of "The Contest"?

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