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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. How does the reader know people in the neighborhood are watching the boy and the girl in the driveway alone?
(a) Cops approaching saying they have been called by several neighbors.
(b) Lights come on in the houses up and down the street.
(c) Someone tells them to get a room.
(d) People stand on their porches and stare.

2. What is the first thing the boy plugs in when they stop in the man's driveway to look at the items?
(a) The TV.
(b) The portable heater.
(c) The record player.
(d) The blender.

3. What does the boy say he will do if anyone is home?
(a) Ask where they are moving.
(b) Offer to buy the whole lot.
(c) Ask how much things are selling for.
(d) Ask if everything is okay.

4. How much does the man say he was thinking of asking for the bed?
(a) $50.
(b) $80.
(c) $125.
(d) $30.

5. What is the first item the girl shows interest in as they pass the man's house?
(a) The desk.
(b) The bed.
(c) The record player.
(d) The kitchen set.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl do as the boy sits on the couch with a cigarette looking at the TV?

2. What does the man take from his sack first when he arrives at the home to find the girl and boy?

3. What word does the author use for chest of drawers in the story?

4. Where are the girl and the boy when the man approaches his house?

5. What item does the boy say is "pretty good" (3) before going to see if anybody is home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the man at the very start of the story? What is he doing? What is he looking at?

2. Why is the boy hesitant to lay on the bed with the girl when she asks him?

3. What two things does the boy do "for no good reason" (2) instead of seeing if anyone is home as he said he would?

4. How does the man first appear on the scene? Where is he coming from and what does he have?

5. What does the boy do when he first gets to the house and begins looking at the things?

6. What does the boy say he is going to do if anybody is home after he gets off the bed?

7. Why do the boy and the girl need furniture?

8. What is the first thing the girl does when they get out of their car and begin to look at the items?

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. 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?

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