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

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

3. How deep is the frog pool?
(a) eight feet
(b) ten feet
(c) fourteen feet
(d) four feet

4. Where do the couples go?
(a) To dinner
(b) To a movie
(c) To breakfast
(d) To a beach

5. What does Henri the Painter use for his materials?
(a) Bottle caps and nutshells
(b) Colored chicken feathers and nutshells
(c) Pennies and nickels
(d) Colored pebbles and chicken feathers

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mack and the boys use for currency in Lee's store?

2. Through what time of day does Doc work gathering his gear?

3. What is the captain's wife always doing?

4. What type of hat does Henri the Painter wear?

5. What are Mack and the boys known as now?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mack know that the captain's wife would disapprove of Mack and the boys?

2. How does Doc respond to Mack's request to know Doc's birth date?

3. Why is Mack impressed by Dora?

4. Which character seems to assimilate the combined woes of everyone in Cannery Row?

5. What raises the ire of the normally even-tempered Doc while on the road?

6. What is the symbolism of the music in Doc's head when he finds the body of the beautiful dead woman in the water?

7. Why does Mack initially reject the captain's offer of whiskey?

8. What impact have Mack and the boys had on the captain?

9. How do Mack and the boys react to ruining Doc's party?

10. How does Steinbeck show that Cannery Row is an undesirable part of town?

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