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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. To what writer does Nathan compare Anne Frank?
(a) No one.
(b) Lonoff.
(c) Himself.
(d) Kafka.

2. What frightened Amy about the play?
(a) The women watching it.
(b) The actors.
(c) The set.
(d) The story.

3. At breakfast, Nathan references Henry James' line, "the consequences of his" what?
(a) Infatuation.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Madness.
(d) Love.

4. What does Amy say has to happen "there" in the theater?
(a) The women cry.
(b) The women scream.
(c) The women yell.
(d) The women laugh.

5. To what flower does Nathan compare Hope in Chapter 4?
(a) Mums.
(b) Lilies.
(c) Orchids.
(d) Geraniums.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much is the royalty check that Lonoff receives in Chapter 4?

2. What song is Lonoff humming when he comes to breakfast in Chapter 4?

3. How many times does Amy read the diary?

4. What does Lonoff not want to eat a whole thing of?

5. Who is Amy looking for in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the diary come to be published?

2. What does Zuckerman imagine saying to his family as he sits at breakfast with Amy and the Lonoffs?

3. What does Amy realize when she hears the woman say "Oh, no" in the theater?

4. Why does Amy want a room with a telephone?

5. How does Amy find out about her father, according to the story in Chapter 3?

6. Why does Hope tell Lonoff that he does not want her to leave?

7. Why can Zuckerman no longer think of Amy as herself in Chapter 4?

8. Why does Amy say she wrote and kept the diary while in hiding?

9. What does Amy do when she receives the copy of the book?

10. What significance does Zuckerman see in Amy's wool cap in Chapter 4?

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