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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Sammy's response when Al asks Sammy about Julian's name not being included in the credits?
(a) He is miserable and knows his wrong doing.
(b) He doesn't think he should share the success.
(c) He tells him to mind his own business.
(d) He pretends he doesn't hear Al and promptly changes the subject.

3. Why does Kit feel sorry for Sammy?
(a) Because he reminds her of a lost puppy.
(b) He is too idealistic.
(c) Because of his childhood.
(d) He is ridiculous and overconfident.

4. How does Al feel about what Sammy has done to Rosalie?
(a) He wants Rosalie to get justice for Sammy's wrong-doings.
(b) Al wants to stay out of the picture.
(c) He thinks Rosalie got what she deserved.
(d) Al is tempted to punch Sammy in the face.

5. Why is Al having a hard time at work in Chapter Four?
(a) His boss barely ever assigns him work.
(b) His producer throws his first script away and assigns him a partner.
(c) He doesn't trust anyone.
(d) He doesn't have passion.

6. How does Al describe Julian in Chapter Five?
(a) Over-eager.
(b) Nebbish: the kind of person that is easily forgotten.
(c) Confused, insecure yet unforgettable.
(d) A person with great strength.

7. What is Sammy dressed like when Al goes to see him for the first time in Hollywood?
(a) He is wearing a woman's dress.
(b) Sammy is dressed for surfing.
(c) Sammy is wearing a yellow scarf and sports coat.
(d) He is in a three piece suit.

8. Al calls Sammy when he first arrives in Hollywood in Chapter Three. What does Sammy talk to him about?
(a) His new girlfriend.
(b) Selling out to a big corporation.
(c) The next big break he will make.
(d) Al's salary being unsatisfactory.

9. How does Al liken himself to Sammy?
(a) They will both stop at nothing to get ahead.
(b) They are both originally from another country and started their life in the slums.
(c) They have nothing in common.
(d) They are both columnists, Jewish, and American.

10. Why does Rosalie Goldbaum call Al in Chapter Three?
(a) She thinks she is pregnant with Sammy's child.
(b) She wants Al to help her sell an article.
(c) She is trying to get a hold of Sammy.
(d) She wants to talk to Al about a promotion at the paper.

11. In Chapter Six, how does Kit threaten Sammy?
(a) By sneaking into his house with a knife.
(b) She promises to leave him if he doesn't come out with the truth.
(c) By stealing all of the work he and Julian have done together.
(d) She tells him Julian will reveal he has been ghostwriting Sammy's work.

12. What is Sammy's advice to Al regarding work in Chapter Three?
(a) That things will pick up in a year.
(b) He tells him to cheat his way to the top.
(c) He says nothing will get better and Al should just move back to New York.
(d) He tells him he is safe with a six month contract and doesn't have to start impressing anyone until the fifth month.

13. What bothers Al about Kit in Chapter Five?
(a) She appears to be detached from everything going on around her.
(b) The way she made herself at home at Sammy's place.
(c) She acts insincere towards him and Sammy.
(d) She is too quiet.

14. Why is Al first intrigued by Sammy?
(a) Al Manheim feels like he wants to scream when he meets Sammy.
(b) Al thinks Sammy might be his son.
(c) Sammy is strongly motivated.
(d) Sammy makes him laugh.

15. Al explains how he wanted to go to Hollywood before he met Sammy Glick. What does he say his reasons for wanting to go are?
(a) He wants to live by the beach.
(b) He wants to get paid in gold.
(c) He has dreams of being a movie star.
(d) He wanted to know if it was as ideal as agents claimed it to be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kit say of the movie house where Sammy's premier is playing in Chapter Five?

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

3. Why is Al surprised by the car Sammy drives?

4. How does Sammy convince Selznick to buy the manuscript?

5. What does Al find out about Sammy's movie review in Chapter Five?

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