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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jerry ask Peter about that has him flustered for an answer?
(a) How much do you make?
(b) Where are we?
(c) Who are your favorite writers?
(d) What does your wife look like?

2. What does Jerry ask Peter if he has?
(a) Children
(b) Dogs
(c) Parakeets
(d) Cats

3. Why does his mother walk out on his father when he was ten-and-a-half-years old?
(a) To protect her son.
(b) To find a better life.
(c) To sleep with many men in the southern United States.
(d) To get revenge on his father.

4. Who cries all the time, according to Jerry?
(a) Peter
(b) He does
(c) His aunt
(d) The woman on the third floor

5. Where is Jerry's room in this building?
(a) The top floor
(b) The bottom floor
(c) The ground floor
(d) The basement

6. Why does he do this, every once in awhile?
(a) He needs a change in his life.
(b) He wants to make new friends.
(c) He needs to take time to think.
(d) He wants to be in nature.

7. What is Peter doing when Jerry approaches him?
(a) Eating lunch
(b) Napping
(c) Nothing
(d) Reading a book

8. When Peter calls Jerry a 'dear fellow' what does Jerry accuse him of being?
(a) Patronizing
(b) Humorous
(c) A snob
(d) Too quiet

9. How long did Jerry's Pop celebrate New Years?
(a) He didn't
(b) Two weeks
(c) One night
(d) A year

10. How does Jerry feel when he wonders if Peter will tell him to get married and to have parakeets one day?
(a) Angry.
(b) Sad.
(c) Happy.
(d) Worried.

11. What happens soon after his father returns?
(a) He finds a new job.
(b) He is hit by a large moving omnibus and dies.
(c) He leaves Jerry.
(d) He gets remarried.

12. What does Jerry call that incident?
(a) An accident.
(b) A middle-European joke.
(c) A surprise.
(d) A shock.

13. Where does a person have to go this distance?
(a) Towards the park.
(b) Out of his way.
(c) On his way.
(d) Away from the park.

14. Peter carries no more than ________ with him at any time.
(a) $5
(b) $40
(c) $60
(d) $20

15. What does Jerry's typewriter type?
(a) Only lower case letters
(b) Only capital letters
(c) Nothing
(d) Only consonants

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter claim about his life?

2. What does Jerry tell Peter he doesn't like to do?

3. What does Jerry remind Peter about the zoo?

4. Where does Peter live?

5. Why is Peter in shock about such people?

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