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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 many total teeth are pulled from the narrator's mouth throughout the story, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

2. What is the narrator's first assignment from Mr. Yoshoto?
(a) Instructing students.
(b) Sweeping the floor.
(c) Translating letters.
(d) Painting.

3. Who wins the race back to the house at the end of the story, Down at the Dinghy?
(a) Lionel's neighbor.
(b) Lionel's father.
(c) Lionel.
(d) Boo Boo.

4. 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 make Bobby happy.
(d) To fill the time during the day.

5. What does the narrator's mother-in-law want him to send her?
(a) Cashmere yarn.
(b) Tea.
(c) Olives.
(d) Cheese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bobby move the family to Paris?

2. Why does the narrator write a letter to Mr. Yoshoto?

3. What is Esme training herself to be?

4. What year does Bobby die?

5. What job does the narrator accept under the name, Jean de Daumier-Smith?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lionel cry when he throws the key chain overboard?

2. Why is Sandra so worried about Lionel when he runs away in Down at the Dinghy?

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

4. Why is the narrator so taken by Esme?

5. Why does Lionel run away so often?

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

7. Why does the narrator and Bobby move back to New York nine years later?

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

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

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

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