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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how many pairs of shoes did Harry Lowell say were being produced?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 55 million.
(c) 80 million.
(d) 45 million.

2. In Chapter 13, what grade were Len and Reg in when they met?
(a) 4th.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 5th.

3. In Chapter 11, what did Kitty point out when Elsa was telling how Hitler was moving toward war?
(a) The sky.
(b) The stock market.
(c) The news from France.
(d) The water.

4. In what class did Evie meet her husband?
(a) African American Poetics.
(b) Reading Dante's Inferno.
(c) From Charlotte Bronte to Lydia Davis.
(d) The Literature of Migrants and Refugees.

5. What year was it in Chapter 1?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1935.

6. What does Paul say that Evie's grandfather's best friend did during the war?
(a) Fought in the Philippines.
(b) Liberated the camps, came home, and drank himself to death.
(c) Provided investments for German industrialists.
(d) Fought in Japan.

7. To whom did the Miltons sell their bank?
(a) BlackRock.
(b) Goldman Sachs.
(c) Vanguard.
(d) Merrill Lynch.

8. Where was Ogden traveling in Chapter 1?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Britain.
(d) France.

9. When did Ogden serve on FDR's advisory board?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1930.

10. Where does Evie live in Chapter 2?
(a) New Haven.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Boston.

11. In Chapter 2, what type of shoes does Evie Milton wear in her dream?
(a) Keds.
(b) Penny loafers.
(c) Nikes.
(d) Ballet slippers.

12. How far was the Harvard Club from Grand Central Station?
(a) 2 blocks.
(b) 1/2 mile.
(c) 2 miles.
(d) 50 steps.

13. How much younger was Evelyn than Joan?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 years.

14. At the end of Chapter 12, what was the date?
(a) June 1939.
(b) June 1947.
(c) June 1959.
(d) June 1938.

15. How long had it been in Chapter 15 since Ogden hired Solly Weinberg?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 19 years.
(c) About 25 years.
(d) More than 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of job did Joan want in Chapter 13?

2. Where does Evie teach?

3. In Chapter 16, where did Len keep remembering seeing the girl who had the seizure one day?

4. In Chapter 16, how many of Moss's pieces had been played in the Village?

5. In Chapter 14, who comes over to eat Chinese with Evie and her husband, when Paul is just returned from his trip?

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