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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Girl miss from living by a railroad track?
(a) Waving to all the people.
(b) The many hotel guests.
(c) The noise from the train.
(d) The gifts from the travellers.

2. What happens when no one takes Mr. Morse's complaint very seriously?
(a) He goes back to his room.
(b) He threatens to hold the hotel responsible for his hospital bill should his health deteriorate any further.
(c) He gets grumpy.
(d) He begins to whine.

3. What is this play about?
(a) The lives of a motley group of characters.
(b) A train stop in Baltimore.
(c) A nursing home.
(d) A group of school children.

4. Who is Girl?
(a) A nineteen-year-old call girl.
(b) Mr. Katz's daughter.
(c) Bill's daughter.
(d) An actress.

5. What possibility does Jackie see in Mr. Morse?
(a) To make a quick friend.
(b) A money lender.
(c) A fatherly figure.
(d) To find a boyfriend.

6. About what does Mrs. Bellotti whine?
(a) Her missing jewelry.
(b) Horse's plight to anyone who will listen.
(c) The job she has lost.
(d) Her inability to get into her room.

7. About what does April Green complain?
(a) The dingy hotel.
(b) The lack of hot water this morning.
(c) Her lack of sleep.
(d) Her difficult customers.

8. Of what does Mr. Katz disapprove?
(a) Suzy entertaining customers in her room.
(b) Suzy bringing friends back to the hotel.
(c) Suzy's obnoxious sister.
(d) The friendship between Suzy and the hotel guest.

9. Why is Mrs. Bellotti concerned?
(a) Mr. Katz has evicted her son named Horse.
(b) She has lost her key.
(c) She cannot pay her rent.
(d) Her room has been broken into.

10. What does the Girl try to do to Bill?
(a) Flirt with him.
(b) Annoy him.
(c) Make fun of him.
(d) Push him away.

11. What is Bill trying to maintain among all these distractions?
(a) The switchboard activity.
(b) His composure.
(c) Peace and quiet.
(d) A clean hotel.

12. What distracts April from heading back to her room upstairs?
(a) The arrival of Mr. Morse.
(b) A loud noise.
(c) The doorbell.
(d) The mail in her mailbox.

13. What about the hotel has diminished?
(a) Its distance from the train stop.
(b) The number of guests.
(c) Its gleaming persona.
(d) Its cleanliness.

14. What is Millie's reply?
(a) There are many ghosts.
(b) The ghosts will probably move along with the hotel guests with whom they have become attached.
(c) The ghosts will stay on the grounds of the hotel.
(d) They could be very dangerous.

15. What does the Girl leave for the day desk clerk?
(a) A piece of chocolate.
(b) A note.
(c) A card.
(d) Eviction notices.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Millie respond to Bill's news?

2. What does Jackie do at Bill's request that she not do it?

3. What would the Girl like Millie to tell her?

4. From whom does Jackie try to enlist some help?

5. What has the hotel seen?

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