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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the young man in "The Waltz" offer to do after the band stops playing?
(a) To pay the band twenty dollars to play another song.
(b) To help bandage the young woman's shin.
(c) To walk the young woman to the bus stop.
(d) To walk the young woman home.

2. Where is the newlywed couple going for their honeymoon?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Chicago.

3. How does Midge change the rules of their game at the end of "The Standard of Living"?
(a) She decides that the players can spend their money on others.
(b) She says that they should no longer ask about the prices of their "purchases."
(c) She raises the amount of money they can "spend" from one to ten million dollars.
(d) She suggests that they invite more people to play with them.

4. According to the girl in "A Telephone Call," why should a woman not keep calling a man on the phone?
(a) A woman's voice over the phone is not nearly as seductive as in person.
(b) When you call, they know you like them, and then they no longer like you.
(c) Talking on the phone is not ladylike.
(d) Men are much busier than women and do not like to be disturbed.

5. According to the poem "Fighting Words," what would cause the narrator to desert her lover?
(a) If he admires another woman.
(b) If he mocks her for being too fond of him.
(c) If he accuses her of being sullen.
(d) If he criticizes her poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Durant plan to get rid of the stray dog?

2. Who decided that the Old Gentleman should come to live with the Bains?

3. In "The Leal," on what can the narrator rely?

4. What does Hobie do after Kit leaves?

5. According to the young woman in "You Were Perfectly Fine," what was the most important thing that ever happened to her and the young man?

(see the answer key)

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