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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Yeamon and Chenault doing when Paul returns?
(a) Making breakfast
(b) Arguing
(c) Weaving baskets
(d) Playing ping pong

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

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

4. Where does Paul go to eat while he is at Sala's?
(a) Macdonalds
(b) The office
(c) Yeamon's
(d) Al's

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of San Juan does Al live in?

2. Whose apartment does Paul move into in this chapter?

3. What language does the old man speak?

4. Which of the following characters does Paul meet at Al's one morning?

5. What do the children make fun of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the argument between Yeaman and Lotterman.

2. What does Paul think Segarra's role is at the newspaper?

3. In what way do all the characters working on the newspaper give Paul a bad first impression of his new job and life in San Juan ?

4. How is Yeaman coping with losing his job?

5. What does Paul do in Yeaman's house in Chapter 3?

6. What gives the reader the idea that Paul intends to stay in San Juan?

7. How does Paul feel about Yeaman and Chanault's relationship in Chapter 3?

8. What signs are there that newspaper will soon fold?

9. How does Paul try to get revenge on Segarra?

10. What do Paul and Sala do at the casino?

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