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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Henny snap at when she is in a foul mood?
(a) Louie for being dirty.
(b) Sam for his infidelities.
(c) Miss Aiden for taking care of Louie.
(d) Tommy for mouthing off.

3. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Sam and Colonel Willets?
(a) Colonel Willets is afraid of Sam's ambition.
(b) Colonel Willets simply doesn't like Sam.
(c) Colonel Willets loathes Sam's intellectual background.
(d) Colonel Willets resents Sam's easy-going personality.

4. What happens to Sam in mid-summer?
(a) He is fired.
(b) He is suspended.
(c) He is assigned to a post in Malaysia.
(d) He is promoted.

5. What happens to Bonnie in the end of the book?
(a) She comes back to the house.
(b) She marries Sam.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She is institutionalized.

6. The boys think a marlin is a ___________.
(a) Shark.
(b) Shady deal.
(c) Minnow.
(d) Joke

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

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

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

10. Sam pays for ______________.
(a) Bonnie to get married.
(b) More news of Colonel Willets.
(c) The baby's needs.
(d) The baby to be taken away.

11. What does Sam say about Louie ever leaving?
(a) He says that she can go whenever she likes.
(b) He says that if she wants to leave, she will have to pay her own way.
(c) He says if she tries to leave he will kill her.
(d) He says she can never leave him.

12. How does the narrator characterize the house Sam finds?
(a) It is a wreck.
(b) It is splendid.
(c) It will have to be totally rebuilt.
(d) It needs work.

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

14. What makes Sam furious after the reading of the will?
(a) Almost all the property will have to be sold.
(b) David Collyer hadn't spoken to him about his will before he died.
(c) His plans for further expeditions will have to be delayed.
(d) Henny was overlooked like she was.

15. What is Sam's response to this event?
(a) He rants and raves about the injustice of it.
(b) He is determined to enjoy the summer.
(c) He starts looking for work immediately.
(d) He consumes himself in preparing to present his case.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josephine Pollit carry on about?

2. Louie says Spa House is filled with __________________.

3. Why doesn't Sam tell Henny this news?

4. What are Louie's feelings about what she has done?

5. What does the Pollit family begin to prepare for after the homecoming celebration?

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