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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What were Babylon and Nineveh built out of, according to Stan?
(a) Wood.
(b) Steel.
(c) Brick.
(d) Rock.
2. What causes Stan to say "To hell with it" when he gets to his apartment?
(a) The empty refirgerator.
(b) Ellen's absence.
(c) The cash in his pocket.
(d) Pearline's smell.
3. What is the name of Stan's surprise bride from Niagara Falls?
(a) Pearline.
(b) Ruby.
(c) Opal.
(d) Amberlette.
4. Ellen fells like a _________ in her metal green evening dress when she is out with Harry.
(a) A stiff cast iron figure.
(b) A pile of dry leaves.
(c) A paper doll.
(d) A mannequin.
5. Who does Gus McNeil tell Burke to set up a drink on him for?
(a) His friend from high shool.
(b) The ladies at the bar.
(c) The company.
(d) Burke himself.
6. Jimmy is soaring like a _____________ when he smells Ellen's hair while dancing.
(a) A fireballoon.
(b) A homerun.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A bottlerocket.
7. To whom does Stan refer when he is trying to light himself on fire?
(a) Ellen and her kind.
(b) A lady on a white horse.
(c) The goddess of pain.
(d) The golden boy.
8. What does Jimmy Herf say about reading the paper in New York?
(a) Gossip dries on its pages.
(b) You might miss something.
(c) There is a time and place for news.
(d) A cat may look at a king.
9. Jimmy Herf thinks reporters are what?
(a) Parasites.
(b) Important.
(c) Rodents.
(d) Respectable.
10. After a night of dancing in Chapter 14, how does Anna accidentally wake her aunt up?
(a) She starts humming too loudly.
(b) She giggles loudly when her boyfriend kisses her goodnight.
(c) She trips on a rug and falls to the floor.
(d) She bumps into the kitchen table.
11. What does Ellen think of milkmen?
(a) They are the nicest people in the world.
(b) They are beneath her dignity.
(c) They are all a little crazy.
(d) They steal from mailboxes.
12. Which company makes pipe tobacco that doesn't come in tins?
(a) Dunhill.
(b) Broadleaf.
(c) Socony.
(d) Bjarne.
13. What does Phil Sandbourne find himself drinking in the hospital after being hit by a car?
(a) Hot tea form a ceramic cup.
(b) Icewater out of a teapot.
(c) Lemonade in a jar.
(d) Milk through a straw.
14. According to the taxi driver who drops Elaine and George off, why is there is such a big crowd at the road house?
(a) The weather is stellar.
(b) The Canarsie murder.
(c) The war.
(d) It is steak night.
15. Where does Jimmy work as a reporter?
(a) At the Times.
(b) At the Voice.
(c) At the Herald.
(d) At the Post.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Harland say of the photographs in the paper?
2. Where does Congo learn to speak American and tend bar?
3. Who is the dressmaker that Jimmy takes Ellen to?
4. What does Martin say an artist is?
5. What do the Herfs smuggle into the country from their trip abroad?
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