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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the paper's editor?
(a) Segarra
(b) Lotterman
(c) Sanderson
(d) Yeamon

2. Which of the following characters does Paul meet at Al's one morning?
(a) Sala
(b) Chenault
(c) Yeamon
(d) Lotterman

3. What does Yeamon suggest they use as a football?
(a) A tennis ball
(b) A rock
(c) A banana
(d) A coconut

4. Who paid for the ale?
(a) Jack Dawes
(b) Phil Rollins
(c) Joe Deakin
(d) Johnny Goodwin

5. What was the name of the newspaper that Lotterman started?
(a) The Socialist Worker
(b) The Puerto Rican Observer
(c) The Guardian Angel
(d) The San Juan Daily News

6. What does Paul think Segarra has decided to do to him?
(a) Have him beaten up
(b) Demote him
(c) Blacklist him
(d) Get him fired

7. Whose poem begins the book?
(a) Eileen O'Connell
(b) Lord Byron
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) James Joyce

8. Where did Al move his family?
(a) To a nearby island
(b) Near the airport
(c) Near the sports stadium
(d) To the USA

9. In what city does the main character live in?
(a) San Juan
(b) New York
(c) San Francisco
(d) Los Angeles

10. Where does Pual decide to go instead of interrupting the couple?
(a) A park
(b) A bordello
(c) The local shop
(d) A casino

11. Who does Lotterman offer the city editing position to?
(a) Sanderson
(b) Paul
(c) Sala
(d) Yeamon

12. Who quits a few days after Yeamon is fired?
(a) The copywriter
(b) The copyeditor
(c) The city editor
(d) The magazine editor

13. Where does Sala have a freelance job in this chapter?
(a) London
(b) Fajardo
(c) Miami
(d) Riga

14. Who does Paul become friends with in this section?
(a) Clive
(b) Zimmerman
(c) Sanderson
(d) Lotterman

15. What does Paul say he is jealous of when he sees Yeamon and Chenault?
(a) Their youth
(b) Their money
(c) Their shack
(d) Their beauty

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Paul supposed to meet at the airport?

2. Which two characters are having a fight in this chapter?

3. What does the main character want to do before he boards his plane?

4. Where does Lotterman send Paul to do some research?

5. Where does Paul go for dinner?

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