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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. What phrase does J.P. use to describe his wife physical appearance when they met?
(a) "All-right-looking."
(b) "A looker."
(c) "A knockout."
(d) "Kind of pretty."

2. Which famous writer once lived near the facility?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Jack London.
(c) Tennessee Williams.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. What is it about J.P.'s wife that "knocks him for a loop" when they first meet?
(a) Her blue eyes.
(b) Her height.
(c) Her top hat.
(d) Her baseball cap.

4. How old is J.P. when he meets his wife?
(a) Exactly nineteen.
(b) Exactly eighteen.
(c) Eighteen or nineteen.
(d) Twenty.

5. How does J.P.'s wife respond to the advice to leave her husband?
(a) She takes the advice.
(b) She says she will think about it.
(c) She says she got herself into it and she will solve it.
(d) She gets angry and says it's nobody's business.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does J.P.'s wife give him her phone number when he asks her out the first time?

2. What does the title of the story refer to?

3. Why does the narrator's landlord grin when he sees him?

4. How are meals announced at the facility?

5. What accident does J.P. have at work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tiny stay at the facility?

2. Why does the narrator want to ask Tiny more about his seizure?

3. In the section about the landlord, what does the narrator's nakedness represent?

4. Chimney sweeping is an uncommon job. Why would the author choose it?

5. Why does the proprietor get a cake for New Year's Eve?

6. Give one example of a character in the story being self-deprecating.

7. Is the narrator's girlfriend also an alcoholic?

8. What is the significance of the way Roxy is dressed on New Year's Day?

9. What does the narrator's appetite represent?

10. Is the story sympathetic or not sympathetic to alcoholics, and why?

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