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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Eight, why does Al say it was a month he would never forget in Hollywood?
(a) Sammy got a good money deal for his play and he thinks it sums up how Hollywood is: a crazy and hopeful place.
(b) Julian passes away and Al knows the time has come to leave.
(c) Al gets offered the deal of a lifetime: $80,000.00 for a play he wrote.
(d) Al and Sammy part ways.

2. Why is Sammy comfortable in Hollywood?
(a) He knows how to pretend.
(b) He has learned the right strategies to excel.
(c) He does drugs and parties all day and night.
(d) He is originally from Hollywood.

3. What do Julian and his wife spend all of their money on?
(a) On a house in Hollywood.
(b) On starting their own publishing company in Los Angeles.
(c) On going to Hollywood in order to get in touch with Sammy.
(d) On suing Sammy.

4. In Chapter Two, Al says there are two kinds of self-made men. One reflects on their success as patriotic and remembers all of the details of their success. How does he describe the second type?
(a) As stopping when they reach a certain point.
(b) As never realizing their success and being surprised by where they are in life.
(c) He never explains the second type.
(d) As rushing forward and never looking back to remember where they came from.

5. What surprises Al about Hollywood?
(a) The city is not unlike a village in its psychology.
(b) The city is a volcano waiting to erupt.
(c) The city both gives and takes.
(d) The city is full of fakers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some of the members of the Guild want to exclude others. Who do they want to exclude?

2. In Chapter Four, when they are talking, how does Billie say she feels about Al?

3. What is Sammy's advice to Al regarding work in Chapter Three?

4. When they are talking at lunch, what does Julian confess to Al that Sammy has stolen?

5. How does O'Brien thank Sammy for helping with the article?

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