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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. What does Dangerfield do in his drunken condition?
(a) Wakes Marion when he gets home.
(b) Wrecks his car.
(c) Wrecks a pub.
(d) Sleeps in the alley.

2. Dangerfield thinks that everything will be OK with him and Marion ______________________.
(a) when the baby is a little older.
(b) when they move back to America.
(c) when they have money.
(d) when Dangerfield is out of school.

3. Who is the woman who rents out the sitting room in the new house?
(a) Maddy Malone.
(b) Aggie Evans.
(c) Lily Frost.
(d) Mary Shannon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chris admits to making contact with Felicity in order to _________________.

2. How does Dangerfield describe the person in #81 to Lily?

3. Why does Marion slap Dangerfield?

4. What does Dangerfield ask Chris to do?

5. Who is Dangerfield's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dangerfield leave Chris when she confronts him about the bar brawl she reads about in the newspaper?

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

3. What is Dangerfield's destructive behavior when he learns that Marion has received money from his father?

4. How does Dangerfield try to appease Marion when she realizes Dangerfield might be having an affair?

5. How do Dangerfield's behavioral traits undermine him in terms of money vs. pleasure?

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

7. How can Dangerfield be called an escapist and how does Chris figure into his escaping?

8. How are Marion and O'Keefe alike in their relationships with Dangerfield?

9. How do Marion and Dangerfield differ in their approach to their life together?

10. Why are O'Keefe's challenges in having sex partly of his own making?

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