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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. When Mike's wife arrives home from her job at the supermarket, what does she struggle to do?
(a) Control her temper at the site of Mike and his friend drinking.
(b) Control her anxiety at having to cook dinner for Mike and his friend.
(c) Control her excitement about being home.
(d) Control her frustration about her long work day.

2. What happens to some of the union workers' wives?
(a) They become depressed.
(b) They are forced into the workforce to help support their families.
(c) They help the men's cause by making new picket signs and creating a list of their own demands.
(d) They leave their husbands.

3. What does Lucy realize her children did after the neighbor comes to talk to her?
(a) Set off the sprinkler system.
(b) Set the bathroom on fire.
(c) Flooded their bathroom.
(d) Drew on the walls of the bathroom

4. How old was Tralala when she first had sex?
(a) 15.
(b) 21.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

5. Where is Lucy when the narrator switches back to her story in Coda?
(a) The laundromat.
(b) Her mother's house.
(c) The market.
(d) Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Towards the end of Part IV, which bar does Tralala end up returning to?

2. After Harry gifts his token of appreciation for the workers, where does he go?

3. When the narrator switches to describing Vinnie in Coda, who does the narrator reveal is Vinnie's wife?

4. When the narrator talks about Abraham, what does he think about?

5. When the narrator switches back to discussing Ada, what is she doing with her dead's husband's pajamas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Towards the end of Coda, what do Vinnie and Mary fight over?

2. How does Harry feel about his relationship with Alberta?

3. How does the narrator describe how Tralala views sex?

4. When Harry meets Vinnie, Sal, and Malfie at the Greek diner, what does he ask them about?

5. What does Mary, Harry's wife, believe is the reason her husband is upset?

6. How does Mike reward himself for changing his baby's diaper in Coda?

7. How does Coda end? Which characters get into a fight?

8. How does the man who the narrator calls "Officer" treat Tralala? What do they do together?

9. At the end of Part IV, when Tralala returns to the bar Willie's, what happens to her body?

10. What is Harry's work routine at the steel factory?

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