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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellen ask Harry to buy her in Central Park?

2. What happens when Ed and the person who takes him out for a drink part ways?

3. What is the name of the man Harry introduces Ellen to backstage?

4. What turns Bill Ingersoll from an atheist to a Methodist?

5. Who does Ruth Prynne say lives at Mrs. Sunderland's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jimmy say to Stan when he asks for liquor in the morning, and where has Stan come in from?

2. What does Ellen say about Stan's demeanor in regards to New YorK?

3. What does Bud witness at the corner of West Broadway and Franklin Street while he is eating peanuts?

4. How does Nicky Schatz set up the burglary of the apartment where Stan and Elaine are having an affair?

5. Why has Bud Korpenning come to New York?

6. What does Stan say to Jimmy about languages?

7. Why doesn't Jimmy's mother ever laugh anymore the week before he goes back to school? How does he react?

8. Why does Jimmy walk faster when he passes the Chinese laundry?

9. What does Phil Sandbourne say of a man's morals as he is talking to Hartly?

10. What has Ed Thatcher worried as he enters the hospital with flowers for his wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Advertising on a large scale is touched on in the book. Pick a few instances where advertising is being described. What does the author mean by including them in various places? How does it affect the characters?

Essay Topic 2

What is Joe O'keefe's role in the book? What is he trying to accomplish? Does he succeed in his goals? How does he affect changes in the realms in which he invests his time?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Jimmy's fascination with skyscrapers. How do skyscrapers define New York at this time period?

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