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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 Lionel impart much gossip and curiosity to while in the bar?
(a) Lester Atlas.
(b) Norman Paperman.
(c) Iris Tramm/Janet West.
(d) Henny Paperman.

2. What does Lionel see when he goes with Bob Cohn?
(a) A shark.
(b) A parrot fish.
(c) All the answers are correct.
(d) Pink coral.

3. What is reported on the radio at dinner the night Norman Paperman returns from the island?
(a) A teamsters strike is expected to paralyze the US economy.
(b) The Soviet Union has thermonuclear bombs.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) The U.S. Seventh Fleet is off Formosa ready for problems with the Chinese.

4. Who disturbs the solitude of Iris and Norman's picnic?
(a) Mrs. Ball.
(b) Bob Cohn.
(c) The Govenor.
(d) Meadows.

5. Who looks familiar to Norman Paperman when they meet?
(a) Iris Tramm, Thor's girlfriend.
(b) Mrs. Ball, Bob Cohn's date.
(c) Govenor Sanders.
(d) Iris Tramm, Bob Cohn's date.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bad news does Henny write in her letter to Norman?

2. How does Thor respond when Norman asks if he will continue working at the club?

3. What is one of the most important things Thor explains on Norman's first day as owner of the Gull Reef Club?

4. How is Norman's heart handling all the stress of running the club?

5. What does Norman Paperman miss celebrating while in the Caribbean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Norman notice about the people of the island?

2. What does Henny seem most excited about when seeing the island and the Gull Reef Club?

3. Who shows up and breaks the solitude of Iris and Norman's picnic while spending the day together?

4. How does Norman's second day on the island start?

5. What does Norman have to do after failing to flag down the water barge?

6. Norman is told a man named Hippolyte can fix the cistern. He asks several people about the man. What does he learn?

7. What good news and bad news does Henny have in a letter she wrote to Norman?

8. What happens to Thor, the bartender who practically ran the club for Mrs. Ball, the previous owner?

9. What happens to Norman after his nap the second day of his ownership of the club?

10. What happens with Tex Akers, the builder Norman hires to do the construction work for the new rooms?

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