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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How powerful is this person that May encounters?
(a) Slightly powerful.
(b) Very powerful.
(c) Less powerful than she thinks.
(d) More powerful than he thinks.

2. What kind of parade goes through the lobby of this building?
(a) A parade of movie stars.
(b) A parade of zoo animals.
(c) The Rose Parade.
(d) Th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

3. How have the Schlepkin brothers had ruthless and relentless success in the industry lately?
(a) With Ethel Merman, their new star.
(b) Their new silent film.
(c) With the new trio they have just hired.
(d) With Al Jolson and the talking picture.

4. What job does the person they are here to meet have?
(a) He is a man in the movie business.
(b) She is an actress.
(c) She is working with Al Jolson.
(d) He is a gossip columnist.

5. What does this person that May encounters offer to do?
(a) Help promote it .
(b) Not keep them from their plans.
(c) Be their first student.
(d) Work as a teacher.

6. Who does George meet, while traveling across the continent with the trio?
(a) A movie star.
(b) A relative.
(c) A director.
(d) A girl.

7. Where does the first scene open?
(a) In a two-bit hotel room.
(b) In May's home.
(c) At an audition.
(d) At a bus stop.

8. How does Helen arrive?
(a) Quietly.
(b) Just as surprised by the celebrities as the trio.
(c) With as much pandemonium as the movie stars.
(d) Angrily.

9. What is the name of the person George meets?
(a) Sam.
(b) Susan.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Seth.

10. What has Jerry done to the trio's act?
(a) He has sold the vaudeville act.
(b) He has landed them roles in a Broadway play.
(c) Found a new theatre for them to perform in.
(d) He has found a new agent.

11. What else will the person May encounters do for them?
(a) Introduce them to a studio head.
(b) Pay for their train tickets.
(c) Buy them dinner.
(d) Find them a place to live.

12. What does this person that May encounters want in exchange?
(a) Fifty percent of the business.
(b) Part time work.
(c) Full time work.
(d) Twenty percent of the business.

13. As what do these people work in this building?
(a) Ushers.
(b) Waiters and cigarette girls.
(c) Bartenders.
(d) Executives.

14. What does the trio hope this very important person will do for them?
(a) Get them jobs somewhere in the United States.
(b) Send them back to New York City.
(c) Put their futures on the fast track.
(d) Buy their dinner.

15. For whom are Jerry, May, and George waiting in this building?
(a) Mr. Glogauer.
(b) The Schlepkin brothers.
(c) Mae West.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are these New York performers headed there?

2. What is George happily doing as this scene opens?

3. Which member of the trio is struggling on the trip across the country?

4. When does Helen's obsequious behavior come into play?

5. What is this person's idea, regarding the new job?

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