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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louie do after confessing to her father?
(a) She is arrested.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She goes back to school.
(d) She takes care of her siblings.

2. How does the narrator characterize Hassie's house?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Tumultuous.
(c) Busy.
(d) Energetic.

3. What is Henny's response when Sam confronts her?
(a) She knows who wrote the letter.
(b) He is a worthless person, who has no right to accuse her.
(c) She has every right to have affairs, considering his infidelities.
(d) She would never have betrayed him, even in spite of his infidelities.

4. What does Louie see when she looks into Henny's room?
(a) Henny standing over Sam with a razor in her hand.
(b) Sam and Henny talking softly.
(c) Henny beating Sam.
(d) Sam sitting with his head in his hands and Henny ranting.

5. What does Josephine Pollit tell the family about, when she comes to visit?
(a) Her affair.
(b) Colonel Willets' new problems.
(c) Bonnie.
(d) Sam's job.

6. What is Sam's status in terms of work, in Chapter 9?
(a) He is still looking for work.
(b) He has a new job.
(c) He has been told that he is unemployable.
(d) He is still not working, but has a promise of work.

7. What is the state of Sam and Henny's relationship when Henny is making a gift for Cathleen?
(a) It's not clear to either of them, what with the move.
(b) It's the same as it ever was.
(c) It's disintegrated.
(d) It's healthier.

8. What does Louie tell Sam about Henny's death?
(a) She didn't know how it happened.
(b) Louie killed her.
(c) She killed herself.
(d) It was an accident.

9. Why does Sam challenge Louie to write poetry?
(a) He knew it would make Henny furious.
(b) He learned to write poems in Malaysia.
(c) Jo had published a poem in the paper.
(d) He wanted to give her an assignment she would fail at.

10. What does the Pollit family begin to prepare for after the homecoming celebration?
(a) Sam's next departure.
(b) Louie's graduation party.
(c) Henny's new baby.
(d) David Collyer's funeral.

11. How does the narrator say Henny's moods change?
(a) They mellow.
(b) They become angrier.
(c) They become more changeable.
(d) They become more vile.

12. Why does the Pollit family have to leave Georgetown?
(a) They are following Sam to a new appointment.
(b) They are no longer welcome there.
(c) They have too many debts there.
(d) It is too expensive.

13. Sam and the other children make fun of Ernie for _____________.
(a) His foolishness.
(b) His concern about money.
(c) His weight.
(d) His awkwardness with girls.

14. What news comes at the end of the celebration at Tohoga House?
(a) David Collyer is dead.
(b) Josephine Pollit is dead.
(c) Louie is missing.
(d) Archie Lessinum is dead.

15. What happens to Bonnie's baby?
(a) It is located.
(b) It dies.
(c) It is adopted.
(d) It is never found.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henny's response to the events of mid summer?

2. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Sam and Colonel Willets?

3. According to the narrator, Saul Pilgrim is the only person who will ______________.

4. What has Henny begun to do in front of the children?

5. What does Louie tell her father she wants to do?

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