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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 is the "something" the man sees in the faces of the boy and girl in the lamplight?
(a) Smart or dumb.
(b) Nice or nasty.
(c) Love or hate.
(d) Rich or poor.

2. What does the man offer the boy and girl?
(a) Free sheets.
(b) A drink.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) A sandwich.

3. What does the man tell the girl to pick for them?
(a) A type of pizza to order.
(b) A beer to drink.
(c) A TV show to watch.
(d) A record to listen to.

4. What does the girl do after she is done dancing with the boy?
(a) She dances with the man.
(b) She eats the man's sandwich.
(c) She has another drink.
(d) She lights a cigarette.

5. What does the girl stop doing "after a time" (6) according to the final lines of the story?
(a) She stops trying to figure out what happened that night.
(b) She stopped trying to find the man.
(c) She stopped dating Jack.
(d) She stopped listening to the records.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man tell the boy and girl he is going to do after he turns off the TV?

2. What word does the girl use to describe the records the man had given her when she tells people the story of that night?

3. How does the boy plan to pay the man?

4. What does the man say to the girl when she asks how much he wants for the desk?

5. What type of liquor does the boy pour for the girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the man and the girl dancing together at the end of the story.

2. Why does the girl just pick a record at random when the man tells her to pick something?

3. What does the man suggest the boy and girl do after he puts on a second record? What does the boy think of this suggestion?

4. What does the man drop on the sofa? Who helps him?

5. What does the man offer the boy and the girl to drink? What does he do after that?

6. What does the man say about the neighbors watching him dance with the girl at the end of the story?

7. What does the girl tell the other people about the night at the man's house?

8. What does the man tell the boy and girl about the record player after he turns off the TV?

9. Why does the girl tell the story of the night at the man's house to everyone? Does she figure anything out?

10. What does the boy tell the man and the girl the whiskey does to him?

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