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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 are Grace and Jerry drinking in the kitchen?
(a) Water.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Coke.

2. What part of Willie's body is missing?
(a) His hair.
(b) His arm.
(c) His eye.
(d) His leg.

3. What does Henry's father ask from Henry?
(a) Peace and quiet.
(b) Rent money.
(c) Company at the races.
(d) Proof of his identity.

4. What is the name of Henry's old college friend?
(a) Phil Upson.
(b) Timmy Hunter.
(c) Jack Dawson.
(d) Cal Fisher.

5. What college did Henry attend?
(a) Yale.
(b) Los Angeles City College.
(c) San Francisco City College.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Henry sleep for three or four days?

2. What do the men on the train receive from the train company?

3. Where does Henry wake up the morning after the bar fight?

4. What kind of biscuits are made at the factory where Henry works?

5. Why does the newspaper sack Henry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Willie's relationship with the three girls?

2. Describe Henry's first two days in New York.

3. How does Willie's death affect the girls?

4. What does Henry do while his parents are away?

5. How is Henry trying to develop his writing career in the fourth section?

6. Why does Willie like Henry?

7. How does a relationship develop between Henry and Gertrude?

8. What does Carson Gentry make Henry understand about life in the fourth section?

9. Summarize the fourth section.

10. How does Henry anger his parents in the second section?

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