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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Al and Kit talk about when they walk to the beach?
(a) The state of The Writer's Guild.
(b) Selling out to write for a bigger corporation.
(c) Running away together.
(d) Sammy's success.

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

3. 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 asks how he would have time to love anyone.
(d) He doesn't know what love is.

4. On his last night in Hollywood, what does Al admit to Kit?
(a) Sammy is his brother.
(b) He has always had feelings for her.
(c) He never wanted to work in Hollywood.
(d) He has a wife that he left in New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sammy ask Sheik to be his assistant when they are adults?

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

3. Where does Al work when he returns to New York?

4. In Chapter Eight, what does Julian want to discuss with Kit and Al when he invites them to his house?

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

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