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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. How does the narrator in the story, For Esme - with Love and Squalor, receive the wedding invitation?
(a) By e-mail.
(b) By air mail.
(c) By telegram.
(d) By phone.

2. Why does Arthur want to move?
(a) To spend more time relaxing.
(b) To buy a bigger house.
(c) To get a better job.
(d) To cut Joanie's social life off.

3. Why is the narrator of De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period going to art school?
(a) To meet women.
(b) To help his commercial art career.
(c) To fill the time during the day.
(d) To make Bobby happy.

4. What does Esme want to read about most?
(a) Riddles.
(b) Her father.
(c) Love.
(d) Squalor.

5. What food item do they want to lure Lionel out of the boat with?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Beans.
(c) Pickles.
(d) Crackers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Arthur leave his wife?

2. What is the farthest distance Lionel ever runs away to?

3. Where does the narrator accept a job in De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period?

4. Where does the narrator think Esme should wear her watch instead of her wrist?

5. Who thinks all Americans despise tea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Lee think Joanie goes with after the party?

2. Why does the tea room likely suit the narrator as a place to spend his last few hours in the town rather than the Red Cross recreation room?

3. Why does Arthur think his marriage isn't working?

4. Describe the narrator in For Esme -- with Love and Squalor.

5. Why does the narrator lie in his lengthy application letter to the art school in Montreal?

6. Why does Esme's long and complicated letter soothe the narrator more than one from his family?

7. How does Boo Boo handle Lionel's habit of running away?

8. What does Arthur do for a living? How does the reader know?

9. Why does Arthur call Lee in the first place of Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes?

10. How does the story, Down at the Dinghy, end?

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