View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Jerry date when he was younger?
(a) The pastor's only daughter
(b) A girl named Mary
(c) A queen
(d) The superintendent's son

2. When Jerry talks about his dead parents, he describes them as a particular vaudeville act that is playing the ______ circuit now.
(a) Old
(b) Quiet
(c) Cloud
(d) Ninth

3. What does Jerry keep doing to Peter?
(a) Teasing him.
(b) Annoying him.
(c) Pushing him.
(d) Interrupting him from his paper.

4. Where does Peter work?
(a) Doctor's office
(b) A small publishing house
(c) Large corporation
(d) A school

5. When Jerry finishes his monologue on his family, what kind of joke does he call his life?
(a) Cruel
(b) Funny
(c) Middle-European
(d) Distasteful

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jerry describe this crying?

2. From where did Jerry walk to get to the park?

3. What happens to Jerry's aunt?

4. Why does Peter return to this question?

5. What does Jerry call that incident?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jerry ask of Peter that makes Peter uncomfortable?

2. What does Jerry do when he sits beside Peter?

3. How does Peter try to fill the awkward space?

4. What does the landlady want Jerry to do for the dog?

5. What does Jerry list? Why does he make this list?

6. What does a dumbstruck Peter wonder about?

7. What does Jerry inform Peter he will learn all about in the papers?

8. How is Jerry increasingly making Peter feel? Why?

9. What do Peter's children own for pets?

10. What does Peter say when Jerry shares his fear as answered in #30?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 475 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample