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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 does the girl do as the boy sits on the couch with a cigarette looking at the TV?
(a) She gets back in the car.
(b) She looks through the records.
(c) She sits beside the boy.
(d) She lay on the bed.

2. What does the boy say he is going to do after the second time the girl tells him to kiss her on the bed?
(a) See if anyone is home.
(b) Love her forever.
(c) Get in the car and leave.
(d) Kiss her.

3. What part of the house does the man look at set up on his front yard at the start of the story?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The living room set.
(c) The dining room set.
(d) The bedroom set.

4. What does the girl tell the boy to do if someone is home and they discuss prices?
(a) Offer to buy the whole lot for $100.
(b) Offer a little more so they can ensure a sale.
(c) Ask if they can deliver.
(d) Offer $10 less than whatever they are asking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first item the boy shows interest in as they pass the man's house?

2. What word does both the man and the girl use to describe the bed when the man first arrives?

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

4. What does the man tell the girl it is "good" that she found when he arrives at the house?

5. Why does Jack feel uneasy getting on the bed with the girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the girl tell the boy to do when he finally gets on the bed with her? How does he respond?

3. What items does the boy tell the man they are interested in when the man first arrives?

4. What is the first thing the man says to the girl when he sees the two at his house?

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

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

7. Why does the girl tell the boy he should offer $10 less than whatever they are asking?

8. Aside from the bed, what items from the man's home are now outside of his house?

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

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

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