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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freddy tell Dotty in his postcard after she goes overseas?
(a) They can get married as soon as she returns.
(b) She was basically a prostitute.
(c) He regrets having met her.
(d) He wished he had married her.

2. Who is the narrator in "The Contest"?
(a) Freddy.
(b) Leona.
(c) Dotty.
(d) Jack.

3. What event at work upsets the narrator in "The Floating Truth"?
(a) The narrator is fired.
(b) The narrator is being asked to do too much work.
(c) A new, young woman is hired.
(d) The narrator's boss harrasses her.

4. Where does Eddie's father work?
(a) A doctor's office.
(b) A pet shop.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A dress factory.

5. Why does Livid give Pallid permission to think of his sons as his in a letter?
(a) Because he has never met the children.
(b) Because he does not think the children are his.
(c) Because he lives very far away.
(d) Because he is dying.

6. What did Ellen call Faith to tell her in "Living"?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She slept with Faith's husband.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She is moving.

7. Why Is Charles C. Charley at Cindy's house at the start of "An Irrevocable Diameter"?
(a) She is tutoring him in math.
(b) He is there to go out with her sister.
(c) He and Cindy have been set up on a blind date.
(d) He is installing an air conditioner.

8. Who tells Virginia she was a "wild, nice kid" in "An Interest in Life"?
(a) Girard.
(b) John.
(c) Leona.
(d) Mrs. Raftery

9. What did Yoyo become well known for in "Gloomy Tune"?
(a) Yoyo became well known for being a ladies man
(b) Yoyo became well known for using a knife.
(c) Yoyo became well known for winning the Nobel Prize.
(d) Yoyo became well known for working hard.

10. Why did Anna not cry when Michael died?
(a) She killed him.
(b) She was in shock.
(c) Nobody told her he died.
(d) She never liked him.

11. Where is the narrator when she sees her ex-husband at the start of "Wants"?
(a) The library.
(b) The doctor's office.
(c) The playground.
(d) Her apartment stoop.

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

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

14. What does Mrs. Junius Finn say about Richard to Faith in "Faith in a Tree"?
(a) He is going to be just like his father.
(b) There is nobody fresher than him.
(c) He is the most polite child she has met.
(d) He acts like he is 47.

15. What event prompted Dolly to plunge a life "at least an eight of an inch in the fat of [her] heart" (140)?
(a) John said he was moving to California.
(b) John said he never wanted to speak to her again.
(c) John said he was going to marry Ginny.
(d) She found out John was cheating on his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Virginia's husband give to her at the start of "An Interest in Life"?

2. Who gives Virginia $10 after he husband left, but tells her not to contact the authorities?

3. What reason did Josephine's mother give for her father's departure?

4. What does Ricardo tell Faith in the letter he writes her in "Faith in a Tree"?

5. Who is Girard in "An Interest in Life"?

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