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

4. How does Henny leave her argument with Bert Anderson?
(a) She severs the friendship.
(b) She tells Bert that she doesn't want to hear from him until he apologizes.
(c) She repairs the conversation.
(d) She takes some time to think about things.

5. What does Cathleen love more than anything?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Dolls.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Reading.

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

7. What does Henny take from Ernie?
(a) His savings.
(b) Her old coins.
(c) His set of keys.
(d) His lead.

8. What does Josephine Pollit carry on about?
(a) The disrepute Bonnie has brought to the family.
(b) The strain a new baby will place on the family finances.
(c) The justice of retribution on Colonel Willets.
(d) The beauty of the new baby.

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

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

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 glad that her work is finally being heard.
(c) She is furious for the invasion of privacy.
(d) She is irritated, but not bothered much.

12. What does the anonymous letter tell Sam?
(a) He will not be starting his new job as he thought.
(b) Louie is not his daughter.
(c) Charles-Franklin is not his son.
(d) Henny has been taking lovers.

13. How does Henny react to the news about her father's will?
(a) She doesn't respond at all.
(b) She wants no part of finding a new place.
(c) She wants to talk to her siblings to see what can be done.
(d) She wants to move out immediately.

14. How has the trip changed Sam?
(a) He is more restrained.
(b) He is more expressive.
(c) He is more optimistic.
(d) He drinks more.

15. What does Sam say when Louie confesses to him?
(a) He has to report her.
(b) He does not believe her.
(c) She did the right thing.
(d) He was going to do it himself.