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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 is Stan reading as he is lying on Jimmy's bed?
(a) Le Petite Prince.
(b) L'Oiseau de Feu.
(c) L'Apres-midi d'un Faune.
(d) La Revolte des Anges.

2. Why is Mrs. McNeil skeptical that George Baldwin is a lawyer?
(a) She thinks she knows him form a bar.
(b) He is dressed like a longshoreman.
(c) He walked to her house.
(d) He looks too young.

3. What happens that makes Captain McAvoy turn his tug abruptly?
(a) The wind has changed direction.
(b) The tug is on fire.
(c) Another boat is approaching too fast.
(d) Someone has jumped off the bridge.

4. What is Jimmy's cousin's name?
(a) Stuart.
(b) James.
(c) Buddy.
(d) Ed.

5. What does Ellen say to Harry Goldweiser about being an emotional actress?
(a) She loves it.
(b) It's liberating.
(c) It's frivolous.
(d) It's all false.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jimmy call his mother?

2. What is Jimmy called by his friends when he throws them out of his room for making him fight?

3. Where does Jimmy Herf graduate from college?

4. What color hair does Elaine Oglethorpe have?

5. How does Cassandra Wilkins speak when she meets Jimmy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stan say about success?

2. Why does Jimmy call up his Aunt Emily, Riverside 2466?

3. What does Joe Harland say of whiskey when he goes to the bar?

4. Why does Bud jump off the Brooklyn Bridge?

5. How does the man with the diamond stud compliment Olga?

6. How does Stanwood Emery act toward Elaine when he first meets her?

7. Why does Mrs. Olafson say that life is really going to be worth living now?

8. What does Stan say to Jimmy about languages?

9. What does John Oglethorpe say to George of his relationship with Elaine?

10. Why can't Jimmy remember how his mother used to look when he is near the cemetery?

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