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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writer does Eugene particularly enjoy?
(a) Kipling
(b) Chaucer
(c) Homer
(d) Marx

2. What does Eliza agree to do for Eugene?
(a) Pay for one year at Harvard
(b) Help him write a letter to Laura
(c) Give him Dixieland
(d) Sell him his father's shop

3. Why does Gant have surgery?
(a) Throat cancer
(b) Prostate cancer
(c) Intestinal blockage
(d) Appendicitis

4. What is the name of the hospital where Gant is taken?
(a) Bowman Gray
(b) Cleveland Clinic
(c) Mayo Clinic
(d) Johns Hopkins

5. How much does Eugene weigh when he enters college?
(a) About 230
(b) About 280
(c) About 180
(d) About 130

6. Who becomes Eliza's closest adviser?
(a) Hugh
(b) Luke
(c) Gant
(d) Eugene

7. Who did Ben eat breakfast with most every morning?
(a) Luke
(b) Dr. Coker
(c) Dr. McGuire
(d) Gant

8. When the undertaker fixes Ben's body, what is Eugene's reaction?
(a) He thanks the undertaker
(b) He is still displeased
(c) He laughs hysterically
(d) He and Luke get into an argument

9. Where is Ben's funeral held?
(a) At the Baptist church
(b) At the Presbyterian church
(c) At the Methodist church
(d) At Dixieland

10. As long as Ben is conscious what will he not allow?
(a) Gant to drink
(b) Anyone to cry
(c) Eugene to see him so sick
(d) Eliza to enter the room

11. Who informs his family he is already "gone"?
(a) Eugene
(b) Gant
(c) Luke
(d) Ben

12. Who is Miss Smith?
(a) Ben's girlfriend
(b) A local store owner
(c) A prostitute at the boarding house
(d) A neighbor

13. Why does Eugene not go off to war?
(a) He doesn't believe in war
(b) He is too young
(c) He has a criminal record
(d) He is too ill

14. Who meets Eugene when he arrives?
(a) Gant and Ben
(b) Helen and Daisy
(c) Luke and Hugh
(d) Eliza and Laura

15. What is the center of Altamont called?
(a) The Commons
(b) The Square
(c) The Park
(d) The Mall

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following women is not one who goes on the trip with Eugene?

2. Who does Eugene meet there?

3. Whose death appears imminent in Part 3, Chapter 32?

4. Who attends Eugene's graduation from the university?

5. How tall is Eugene when he enters college?

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