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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 part of the house is the man in at the start of the story?
(a) Kitchen.
(b) Living Room.
(c) Bathroom.
(d) Bedroom.
2. Where are the girl and the boy when the man approaches his house?
(a) The girl is in the car, the boy is on the bed.
(b) The girl is on the bed, the boy is on the porch.
(c) The girl is on the couch, the boy is at the kitchen table.
(d) The girl is on the porch, the boy is on the bed.
3. Who is the author of "Why Don't You Dance?"?
(a) Raymond Carver.
(b) Carl Raymond.
(c) Christoper Roy.
(d) Richard Copper.
4. What does the girl do as the boy sits on the couch with a cigarette looking at the TV?
(a) She lay on the bed.
(b) She looks through the records.
(c) She sits beside the boy.
(d) She gets back in the car.
5. What does the man tell the girl it is "good" that she found when he arrives at the house?
(a) The bed.
(b) The couch.
(c) The TV.
(d) The record player.
Short Answer Questions
1. What part of the house does the man look at set up on his front yard at the start of the story?
2. What is the first thing the boy plugs in when they stop in the man's driveway to look at the items?
3. How are the sheets described, which lay on the drawers near two pillows?
4. What does the boy say about the pillow when the girl asks how it feels?
5. What three items does the boy tell the man they are interested in when the man first arrives at the house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What items does the boy tell the man they are interested in when the man first arrives?
2. What is the first thing the girl does when they get out of their car and begin to look at the items?
3. Aside from the bed, what items from the man's home are now outside of his house?
4. What does the boy say he is going to do if anybody is home after he gets off the bed?
5. How did people react when they drove by and saw all of the man's things outside his house? What does the man realize he has in common with these people?
6. How do the boy and girl bargain with the man for the items they ask about? Who seems in charge of the negotiations?
7. How does the man first appear on the scene? Where is he coming from and what does he have?
8. What is the first thing the man says to the girl when he sees the two at his house?
9. What is the boy's name? What is the girl asking the boy to do the one and only time his name is mentioned in the story?
10. Instead of seeing if anyone is home as he said he would, what does the boy do after the girl asked him to kiss her?
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