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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. Who graduates from college first, Mary Jane or Eloise?
(a) They are still in college.
(b) Neither of them graduated.
(c) Mary Jane.
(d) Eloise.

2. What is Muriel Glass doing when the call comes through from the hotel operator?
(a) Ironing her clothes.
(b) Tweezing a mole hair.
(c) Brushing her teeth.
(d) Painting her nails.

3. Who talks to Dr. Sivetski about Seymour's condition?
(a) Seymour.
(b) Muriel.
(c) Muriel's father.
(d) Muriel's mother.

4. How long is Mary Jane married?
(a) Three months.
(b) She is never married.
(c) Three years.
(d) She is still married.

5. Who thinks Seymour is "manic?"
(a) Muriel.
(b) Muriel's father.
(c) The psychiatrist.
(d) Muriel's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many New York advertising men are staying at the same hotel as Muriel Glass?

2. Why does Seymour get angry with the woman in the elevator as he goes back to his room after the beach?

3. What does Sybil complain to Seymour about when meeting him on the beach?

4. How does Ginnie describe Selena's brother?

5. What room number is Muriel Glass staying in at the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the issue with the book Seymour gives Muriel?

2. Why doesn't the narrator list all of the Chief's attributes?

3. Why does Ginnie suddenly forgive Selena's debt?

4. What do Walt and Jimmy Jimmereeno have in common in the story Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut?

5. Why is the Chief so important to the boys?

6. What makes the reader think that perhaps Eric is not allowed into the military because he is homosexual?

7. Why is the reader uncertain whether Seymour is going to shoot himself, Muriel or both when he grabs the pistol out of the suitcase?

8. How does the reader know the setting takes place shortly after the end of World War II?

9. What happens with Seymour and the trees?

10. What clues is the reader given that Franklin is bitter about Joan?

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