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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sammy ask Al to take Kit to the opening night of Sammy's play, "Live Wire?"
(a) Because Sammy has a date with Rita Royce.
(b) Sammy is trying to make Kit fall in love with Al.
(c) He feels sorry for Al.
(d) Because he won't have time to socialize with Kit.

2. What does Sidney Fineman do for Kit and Sammy?
(a) He is their financial advisor and he steals their money.
(b) He is a dirty agent and he's done them wrong.
(c) He sells their work to underground agents.
(d) He is a top producer and he oversees their projects.

3. 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) Al and Sammy part ways.
(c) Julian passes away and Al knows the time has come to leave.
(d) Al gets offered the deal of a lifetime: $80,000.00 for a play he wrote.

4. In Chapter Nine. what does Sammy's brother, Israel, tell Al about the relationship Sammy had with their father?
(a) When their father was alive Sammy was a different person, but he became greedy once he was gone.
(b) Sammy broke their father's heart.
(c) Sammy was the favorite child from the start.
(d) Sammy had respect for his father and the respect was mutual.

5. What does Sammy tell Al when Al asks him if he loves Ruth Mintz?
(a) He would rather have Kit.
(b) He says she is the woman of his dreams.
(c) He doesn't know what love is.
(d) He asks how he would have time to love anyone.

6. As a child, how did Sammy make his seventy-five cents?
(a) He robbed the temple.
(b) He sold stolen goods on the street.
(c) He stole it from his father's wallet.
(d) He let Christians convert him.

7. Who greets Al when Al goes to Sammy's apartment in New York in Chapter Ten?
(a) Kit.
(b) Sheik Duncan, Sammy's childhood arch bully.
(c) Israel Glickstein, Sammy's brother.
(d) Sammy himself.

8. In Chapter Eight, when they are at lunch, what news does Julian give to Al and Sammy?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) He has left his wife for Billie.
(c) He has decided to quit and return to New York City.
(d) He and his wife have bought a cottage and they are having a baby.

9. In the conclusion of the book. what does Al say he hopes for Sammy's life?
(a) He reveals he wants Sammy's life to go to shambles.
(b) He would like to see it as a blueprint for the way of life in the first half of the twentieth century.
(c) One day people will understand who Sammy truly is.
(d) He hopes it is forgotten.

10. How does Al picture Sammy when Sammy returns to his mother's home?
(a) As a humble man.
(b) As a well dressed hero.
(c) As a traitor.
(d) As a man who has lost himself.

11. Why didn't Sammy have his Bar-mitzvah?
(a) The Rabbi caught Sammy stealing from the temple.
(b) His parents could not afford it.
(c) The Rabbi told his father Sammy was not allowed because he did not practice his faith.
(d) Sammy refused because he did not believe in it.

12. What rumor follows Sidney Fineman's death?
(a) He committed suicide.
(b) He stole Sammy's idea for his last movie.
(c) He hated his life.
(d) Sammy posioned him.

13. In Chapter Ten, what kind of deal does Sammy offer Al?
(a) He wants him to return to Hollywood to write a movie about a newspaper office.
(b) He asks Al to be his permanent writing partner.
(c) He wants Al to be his secretary.
(d) He wants to sell Al the rights to all of his plays.

14. What happens when Al meets up with Billie in Chapter Seven?
(a) He asks her if she loves Julian.
(b) He drunkenly proclaims his love for her.
(c) He tells her how he feels about Kit.
(d) He confesses he is thinking of suicide.

15. Why does Sammy ask Sheik to be his assistant when they are adults?
(a) He feels sorry for Sheik.
(b) Sammy's brother forces him to employ Sheik.
(c) Sammy wants to prove his success.
(d) He needs someone who understands his social class background.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Al feel about his first project at his new job in Chapter Eight?

2. How does Sammy react to Al having gone to see his mother?

3. What is Sidney Fineman's last movie about?

4. In Chapter Nine, what do Al and his friends debate over when they go out for drinks?

5. In Chapter Eleven, when Sammy tells Al he has everything, what is he referring to?

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