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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jo's main concern regarding Bonnie?
(a) She will have to live with her.
(b) She will do this again.
(c) She will need money.
(d) She will need round-the-clock care.

2. What embarrasses Louie about going to school?
(a) Her ignorance.
(b) Her complete lack of family support.
(c) Her immaturity.
(d) Her hand-me-downs.

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

4. What does Sam say about Ernie's character?
(a) He has matured.
(b) His morals have disimproved.
(c) He has lost his senses.
(d) He has gone rotten.

5. How does Clare approach her poverty?
(a) By letting people walk all over her.
(b) By laughing at it.
(c) By shrinking inside herself.
(d) By apologizing all the time.

6. What worries Henny after David Collyer's funeral?
(a) Where they will get money from.
(b) How she will get through the summer without Louie or Hazel Moore.
(c) When they will be evicted.
(d) Who she can ask for money.

7. Who is Cathleen?
(a) Henny's new maid.
(b) Hassie's only daughter.
(c) Hazel Moore's daughter.
(d) Josephine Pollit's daughter.

8. Louie says Spa House is filled with __________________.
(a) Voices.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Promises.
(d) Misery.

9. Sam tells Bonnie _________________.
(a) About Henny's death.
(b) About his financial problems.
(c) About her baby.
(d) About Jo's affairs.

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

11. What is Louie's reaction when Sam reads her poetry?
(a) She is glad to set a good example for her siblings.
(b) She is furious for the invasion of privacy.
(c) She is glad that her work is finally being heard.
(d) She is irritated, but not bothered much.

12. How does Sam anger Colonel Willets?
(a) By working so hard that no one else needs to contribute much.
(b) By responding pleasantly to his rudeness.
(c) By claiming everything as his own work.
(d) By refusing to tell Colonel Willets about funding opportunities.

13. What does Sam say to excuse Henny's behavior when she beats Ernie for no reason?
(a) These things happen.
(b) She didn't mean it.
(c) It is one of her moods.
(d) Ernie had it coming.

14. What does Sam offer Bonnie?
(a) To send her away.
(b) To make sure the baby is adopted by a nice family.
(c) To send the baby away.
(d) To raise the child as his.

15. What are Louie's feelings about what she has done?
(a) Life will go on.
(b) She feels nothing.
(c) She is ruthless.
(d) Crushing guilt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Henny escape from the house?

3. What makes Sam furious after the reading of the will?

4. Why does Sam say he can't let Louie go?

5. What does Sam say when Louie confesses to him?

(see the answer keys)

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