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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. How does Catharine feel when Newt tells her he loves her?
(a) She is disinterested.
(b) She is afraid.
(c) She is ecstatic.
(d) She is frustrated.

2. What does Harry do a week after his final performance with Helene?
(a) He writes his own play.
(b) He moves to Michigan.
(c) He stops acting.
(d) He marries Helene.

3. What does Harold tell the stranger in "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog?"
(a) His life story.
(b) Gossip about the neighbors.
(c) Current events.
(d) The bus schedule.

4. What makes the rest of New England different from Barnstable?
(a) They are poorer.
(b) They have fewer people living there.
(c) They are modernizing.
(d) They are too crowded.

5. In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is the Kennedy Compound?
(a) A hotel.
(b) Ruins.
(c) A museum.
(d) A suicide center.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did fishermen in Barnstable discover?

2. What does Susanna ask Fuller when he gives her papers?

3. What is the mental handicap in "Harrison Bergeron?"

4. What does the Sheriff warn Nancy about Billy the Poet?

5. At the end of "All the King's Men," what does Barzov claim?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Kennedy's say to the Rumfoords at the end of "The Hyannis Port Story?"

2. What story does the stranger tell Harold?

3. What revelation does Nancy have in "Welcome to the Monkey House?"

4. What does Susanna tell Fuller when he comes to her apartment in "Miss Temptation?"

5. What does the investor realize about Foster?

6. What makes Harry such an interesting actor to the director in "Who Am I This Time?"

7. How does the narrator describe Barnstable?

8. What happens the first time the narrator visits Gloria's house in "Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son?"

9. Why do humans who have not left their bodies think their way of life is better?

10. What do Ivankov and Ashland say to each other, and what do they not talk about?

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