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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 makes Papa's heart race when he enters into the harbor of New York for the first time?
(a) Statue of Liberty.
(b) The boat's hard entry.
(c) The train station.
(d) Ellis Island.

2. Dominick is told that he needs to commit to __________ trial sessions before Patel will take him back on as a patient.
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

3. What does Ray do in response to the way the boys act in church, which Dominick shares with Patel?
(a) Calls Ma.
(b) Smashes Thomas' present.
(c) Leaves the house.
(d) Drinks more.

4. When Signora Siragusa dies, _________ is a pallbearer as he feels she was like a mother to him.
(a) Dominick.
(b) Vincenzo.
(c) Guglielmo.
(d) Papa.

5. What does Dominick call the current Persian Gulf war when it is brought up in conversation?
(a) Vietnam II.
(b) The truth.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A pain in his side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas want from the Indian cemetery in order to cleanse his brain?

2. Papa orders ____________ to his bed on at least Saturdays and Sundays, hoping for a child.

3. What happens to the first birth that Ignazia has with Papa during their marriage?

4. What is the name Papa openly calls Prosperine when she is doing her chores in the house?

5. Papa offers to take both Ignazia and Prosperine into his home, though Prosperine will be the ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ray offer to help Dominick do when he is showing uncommon concern for him?

2. What does Papa do since he can not trust Prosperine to not poison him as they are living together?

3. What happens to tear out Dominick's stitches during the time that Dominick was supposed to paint the Rood's house?

4. What does Dominick ask Ralph to do for him after he meets with Patel to talk about Thomas?

5. What is the warning that Ralph gives to Dominick when he phones him up secretly?

6. What is the incident which makes Papa finally go to confession after he begins to think about how far he has strayed?

7. What does Dominick evade when he is talking with Patel at the beginning of this section of the story?

8. What story has Dominick been reading when he comes into Patel's office for a new appointment?

9. How did Dominick get Thomas in trouble when they were kids and they were in mass with Ray and Ma?

10. How does Papa become the first Italian boss in the textile mill where he works, according to his memoir?

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