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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. Who does Alex turn to for advice when he is ready to make his career plans?
(a) His guidance counselor.
(b) Mr. Carver.
(c) His father.
(d) Phillip Carver.

2. Who do Alex and Phillip meet on the streets of Paris?
(a) Charles De Gaulle.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Alfred Hitchcock.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

3. What expression do Betsy and Josephine use repeatedly to describe their father's dancing?
(a) "Strutting his stuff."
(b) "Attempting to dance."
(c) "Cane dancing."
(d) "Awkward movements."

4. What is the name of Phillip's school in Nashville?
(a) Thornton Academy.
(b) Newman School.
(c) Bruce School.
(d) Price School.

5. What mistake does Mr. Carver make one night while not wearing his glasses at the Red Lantern?
(a) He mistakenly walks into the women's restroom.
(b) He leaves with a different woman.
(c) He accidentally walks into a wall and hits his head.
(d) He walks into the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alex regularly urge Phillip to do?

2. How old is Phillip when the family moves to Memphis?

3. What tone infects Betsy's written description of the people with whom her father is night clubbing?

4. What dance do Betsy and Josephine try and convince the bands to play?

5. Who does Phillip believe his sister Betsy is going to the bars with while watching her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, Alex also meets Mr. Carver. Where do the two meet, and what brings them together? How does their relationship grow during the course of the chapter?

2. In Chapter 4, thirteen year-old Phillip introduces us to his first serious girl friend. Who is the young girl he falls in love with and how does he describe her? What develops in their relationship, and how does it end?

3. Betsy and Josephine always speak to Mr. Carver and Philip about their late-night dates and whether or not they should marry. In Chapter 6, Phillip knows that this is a game the two sisters play. Are there romances for these two women? Who does Phillip realize these phantom men are?

4. In Chapter 6, Betsy describes one evening at the Blue Moon when Mr. Carver arrives with a group of six people all of whom are much younger than he. What happens that evening to Mr. Carver?

5. Alex witnesses Betsy and Josephine relating stories about Mr. Carver in Chapter 6. How does Phillip describe Alex's reaction to the sisters' behavior in public?

6. Of all the Carver children, the least is said about Georgie. In Chapter 4, what information is revealed about Georgie? How would one describe Georgie and who he is in the Carver family?

7. In Chapter 5, Phillip leaves his father's home and moves to New York City. How does he manage this? Why does he choose New York? How does his family react?

8. When Phillip describes Memphis in Chapter 2, he paints detailed pictures of the city of his adolescence and the one he encounters during his adult visits home. He also compares Memphis to Nashville. How has the city of Memphis changed in Phillip's opinion? How do the two cities still differ?

9. In Chapter 3, Phillip talks at length about what his sisters have done for both himself and his brother, Georgie. What have they done for their brothers to help them in their lives? What have they potentially sacrificed by helping their brothers in this way? How do the two women continue to take care of their father after the boys leave home?

10. In Chapter 2, Phillip relates the story of his sister Joesphine's experience with her serious beau, Clarkson Manning. What happens to to their relationship? What does Manning inadvertently do that changes the relationship between the two? How does Father react to Manning?

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