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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. According to the narrator, what did Dexter desire?
(a) Association with glittering people.
(b) Glittering things themself.
(c) Association with glittering things.
(d) A wealthy, beautiful wife.

2. How does the narrator describe the girl's looks?
(a) She was alright.
(b) She was attractive, but too skinny.
(c) She was arrestingly beautiful.
(d) She was ugly as sin.

3. What did Dexter's winter dreams cause him to pass up?
(a) Attending a prestigious university.
(b) A chance to travel abroad.
(c) Business courses at the state university.
(d) A chance to buy the golf course.

4. In what state does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) New York.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Montana.
(d) Michigan.

5. Which nationality did Dexter take special interest in learning about for his business?
(a) Scottish.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Irish.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dexter envision in the summer room and on the sun-porch?

2. What can Dexter hear when he relaxes on the raft?

3. What does the person who approaches in the raft Dexter want to do?

4. Who had Dexter expected would announce dinner at Judy's house?

5. What does Judy ask if she may do after dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dexter tell Judy about his career after dinner in Part 3?

2. How does Devlin respond to Dexter's reaction at him (Devlin) calling Judy "a pretty girl?"

3. What is Judy's mood like at the dinner in Part 3?

4. Why did Dexter not regret the night he spent with Judy after he was engaged to Irene?

5. Why did Judy leave the man she was with earlier in the day before she and Dexter had dinner in Part 3?

6. Describe the events that lead up to Mr. T. A. Hedrick getting struck with a golf ball.

7. What are Dexter's feelings toward Judy at the end of Part 2?

8. How does Dexter feel about spring, fall and winter?

9. Describe Dexter's taste in clothes. Include a description of the clothes he wears to dinner at Judy's house in Part 3.

10. What is meant when Dexter is described as "hard minded" in Part 5?

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