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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator describe the man's face?
(a) Gray with fine lines.
(b) Tan and wrinkled.
(c) Pink and wrinkly.
(d) Weathered.

2. How did the narrator describe a man that came up to her and her mother?
(a) Tall.
(b) Fat.
(c) Thin.
(d) Small.

3. What did the man say happened to old people like him?
(a) They had trouble hailing cabs.
(b) They needed help.
(c) They lost their way.
(d) They became forgetful.

4. What did the narrator say that her mother looked like she might find when she cut the top off of boiled eggs.
(a) Mouse.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Bug.
(d) Chicken parts.

5. What did the man do when he spoke to the narrator's mother?
(a) Tipped his hat.
(b) Removed his gloves.
(c) Shared his umbrella.
(d) Bowed.

6. How old did the narrator believe that the man might be who came up to her and her mother?
(a) 82.
(b) 75.
(c) 70 or more.
(d) 60 or more.

7. What type of facial hair did the man have who approached the narrator and her mother?
(a) Heavy stubble.
(b) Beard.
(c) Goatee.
(d) Mustache.

8. Why did the narrator's mother want to get a taxi?
(a) It was raining.
(b) She had twisted her ankle.
(c) It was snowing.
(d) She was tired.

9. What color hair did the man have who approached the narrator and her mother?
(a) Gray.
(b) Salt and pepper.
(c) White.
(d) Silver.

10. What did the narrator have at a cafe?
(a) Banana split.
(b) Chocolate shake.
(c) Ice cream cone.
(d) Hot fudge sundae.

11. What did the narrator want to eat when it started raining?
(a) Strawberry shake.
(b) Candy.
(c) Banana split.
(d) Chocolate cake.

12. What time did the narrator and her mother leave the cafe?
(a) About 6.
(b) 5:30.
(c) 5:45.
(d) Around 7.

13. How old is the narrator's mother?
(a) 33.
(b) 35.
(c) 34.
(d) 31.

14. What did the old man want?
(a) Umbrella.
(b) Pound.
(c) Raincoat.
(d) Ride.

15. Where did the narrator and her mother stand trying to get a taxi?
(a) By a bus stop.
(b) On the pavement.
(c) Outside a cafe.
(d) Under an awning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator and her mother go yesterday?

2. What did the narrator say that her mother was suspicious of?

3. When did the incident that the narrator describes happen?

4. Where did the narrator want to go when it started raining?

5. What were the narrator and her mother wearing?

(see the answer keys)

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