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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about Henri the Painter?
(a) He is of Irish descent.
(b) He is a house painter.
(c) His real name is Henry.
(d) He is neither French nor a painter.

2. What has enthralled Henri the Painter?
(a) His new fishing pole
(b) His new car
(c) A new girl at the Bear Flag
(d) Watching a flagpole sitter/skater

3. How do people treat Doc after he tells his fib?
(a) They shun him.
(b) They want to take his picture.
(c) They invite him to dinner and take him in.
(d) They follow him on his trip.

4. What is the mood at the Palace when Mack returns from the lab?
(a) Hopeful
(b) Calm
(c) Ecstatic
(d) Gloomy

5. What is a major problem of Doc's job?
(a) Getting the universities to pay him
(b) Collecting his specimens when nature makes them available
(c) Fighting off boredom
(d) The smells inside his lab

6. Doc tells the waitress that he needs the answer to #122 for _______________________________.
(a) a headache remedy
(b) a bad bladder ailment
(c) a muscle relaxant
(d) a bad stuttering habit

7. What does Doc think about the boys?
(a) They will always be losers.
(b) They will never hold down real jobs.
(c) They will not sell their souls to gain the world.
(d) They are hopeless drunks.

8. Through what time of day does Doc work gathering his gear?
(a) The emerald evening
(b) The pearly time
(c) The opal afternoon
(d) The diamond daytime

9. Where did Doc once take a walking trip?
(a) Georgia to Louisiana
(b) Ohio to Vermont
(c) New York to Maryland
(d) Indiana to Florida

10. How many times has Henri the Painter been married?
(a) Three times
(b) One time
(c) Four times
(d) Two times

11. Which of the boys have taken jobs at the Hediondo Cannery?
(a) Hughie and Eddie
(b) Hughie and Jones
(c) Mack and Jones
(d) Hughie and Hazel

12. What are Mack and the boys known as now?
(a) Heroes
(b) Social outcasts
(c) The life of the party
(d) Religious zealots

13. How is Cannery Row described in Chapter 14?
(a) Hectic and chaotic
(b) Boring and dull
(c) Peaceful and magical
(d) A war zone

14. Who garners much attention after falling sick?
(a) Doc
(b) Lee
(c) Darling
(d) Mack

15. Where does Henri the Painter live in his imagination?
(a) Maui
(b) Berlin
(c) Australia
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. How deep is the frog pool?

2. Why does Mack turn down the captain's first offer of a drink?

3. Near Los Angeles, what does Doc load up on after he eats a hearty chicken dinner?

4. What does the flagpole sitter complain of on his second day?

5. What does Doc live on during this hectic time?

(see the answer keys)

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