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

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

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

4. What did the narrator say that her mother was suspicious of?
(a) Strange men and boiled eggs.
(b) Strange men and free gifts.
(c) Strange men and free desserts.
(d) Strange men and women.

5. What did the narrator's mother want when they could not get a taxi?
(a) A bus.
(b) Car with a chauffer.
(c) Her husband to pick them up.
(d) A limo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the narrator and her mother travel yesterday?

2. What did the man say happened to old people like him?

3. How old is the narrator?

4. Where did the narrator and her mother stand trying to get a taxi?

5. What color shoes did the man have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the narrator's mother wish they had a car with a chauffeur?

2. What did the man ask the narrator's mother to give him?

3. What did the man say he had forgotten?

4. How does the narrator describe herself and her mother?

5. What was the weather like around six o'clock yesterday and how did that affect what the narrator's mother wanted to do?

6. How does the narrator describe a man who comes up to them?

7. How did the narrator's mother look at the man and why?

8. Why did the narrator believe that the man was a gentleman?

9. Where did the narrator and mother go yesterday afternoon and what happened there?

10. How did the narrator describe her mother's haughty stare?

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