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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. For how long did Sandy have this illness?
(a) Three months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

2. Why does Sandy go to the red-light district?
(a) To find Harriet and give her a message.
(b) To learn about sex.
(c) To find his friends.
(d) He is lost.

3. Why does Hager not want Sandy to work at a hotel?
(a) Hotels do not pay well.
(b) Sandy will have to work late hours.
(c) He is smarter than most people who work at hotels.
(d) She thinks that bad things go on at hotels.

4. What is Hager's response to their treatment?
(a) She wants to protest the carnival.
(b) She wants to get revenge.
(c) She says there's no point to it, to forgive them and move on.
(d) She is also furious.

5. Who did Sandy begin to think was the villain?
(a) The men.
(b) His Aunt Harriet.
(c) Pansetta.
(d) Tempy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Tempy gives Sandy?

2. Annjee and Sandy reached the "_________ belt" of the city.

3. How did Sandy feel about moving in with Tempy?

4. Sandy was wondering more and more about sex and Tempy had given him a book about it called ______________ written by a white Presbyterian Minister from New England.

5. With whom does Sandy spend a lot of time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hager have to say about the soul and the world?

2. How has Harriett grown up? How is this revealed in what she says to Sandy and Annjee?

3. How did Sandy benefit from having the mumps?

4. Should Sandy have dumped Pansetta?

5. How is Sandy's hotel job, as mentioned in "Hey, Boy!" bad?

6. What is the first major event in "Ten Dollars and Costs?" How might this be both a good and bad job?

7. What has happened to Hager in "Note to Harriett?" Why might the title be named after the note sent to Harriett?

8. What was the worst incident Sandy had to deal with at the hotel?

9. How does Sandy's life change after Hager's death?

10. How is the title, "The Doors of Life," significant?

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