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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. Why is Marion furious when she returns home?
(a) Dangerfield forgot to pick her up from the train station.
(b) Dangerfield has burned the dinner.
(c) She was in a car accident on the way home.
(d) There are another woman's clothes lying on the living room floor.

2. What does Marion want Dangerfield to have fixed?
(a) The car.
(b) The stereo.
(c) The plumbing.
(d) The stove.

3. Where does Dangerfield hide when the person in #81 comes to the house?
(a) In the bathroom.
(b) Under a bed.
(c) Behind a door.
(d) Behind a closed curtain.

4. Why did Dangerfield and his wife and daughter have to move to 1 Mohammed Road, The Rock, Dublin?
(a) They got some inheritance money.
(b) Their back garden fell off the cliff.
(c) It is closer to the college.
(d) A highway is being built where their old house stood.

5. Why does Marion slap Dangerfield?
(a) He insults her father.
(b) He says she is fat.
(c) He tells her she is not a good mother.
(d) He has lipstick on his cheek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dangerfield buy in a store on the way home from the bus station?

2. What nationality is Sebastian Dangerfield?

3. What does Dangerfield spend the day doing after he and Marion fight?

4. Why does the woman at the office not give Dangerfield his G.I. Bill check?

5. What is the content of the note that Marion has left for Dangerfield?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Kenneth O'Keefe and where does Dangerfield invite him to go in Chapter 1?

2. What does Chris learn about Dangerfield and Marion's sex life and what does Dangerfield reveal about wanting to have sex with Chris?

3. Why is Dangerfield so angry to learn that Marion has contacted his father?

4. Explain how Chapter 10 is a long, crass joke indicative of Dangerfield's unwillingness to examine himself when problems arise.

5. What are the two most important things in the lives of Dangerfield and O'Keefe?

6. How do Dangerfield and Marion feel about living in the new house?

7. How does the impoverished Dangerfield secure food for O'Keefe and himself?

8. Why does Dangerfield turn to Chris when he has wrecked the bar in a drunken state?

9. What is the result of Dangerfield's embarrassment about the train incident?

10. Why do Dangerfield and Marion fight when she returns home from her trip?

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