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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ralph try to improve the Whitmores lives?
(a) Winning the lottery.
(b) Getting some inheritance.
(c) Through a series of job changes and promotions.
(d) Starting his own company.

2. What do the injuries force Cash to do?
(a) Get a new job.
(b) Spend more time at home.
(c) Talk to his kids.
(d) Talk to his parents.

3. Who is Mrs. Pomeroy married to?
(a) She is a widow.
(b) She is divorced.
(c) Cheever.
(d) Tifty.

4. Who will do anything to keep the peace in the Pomeroy family?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Diana.
(c) Chaddy.
(d) Mrs. Pomeroy.

5. What is Baxter's relationship status?
(a) Married.
(b) Single.
(c) Single, but with a girlfriend.
(d) A bachelor.

6. Where is Clarissa spending the summer?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Laud's Head.
(c) Holly Cove.
(d) Manhatten.

7. Which story is about Evarts and Alice Malloy?
(a) The Sutton Place Story.
(b) Goodbye My Brother.
(c) O City of Broken Dreams.
(d) The Enormous Radio.

8. What story revolves around the Pomeroy family?
(a) Tifty.
(b) The Enormous Radio.
(c) Goodbye, My Brother.
(d) O City of Broken Dreams.

9. Who does most of the care for Amy?
(a) Her brother.
(b) A nanny.
(c) A gardener.
(d) A housekeeper.

10. What does Clarissa look like?
(a) Redhead.
(b) A quiet beauty.
(c) Blond.
(d) Dark.

11. Where do the Malloys live?
(a) Springfield, Indiana.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Wentworth, Indiana.
(d) Chicago.

12. What item does Jim come home with one day?
(a) A new record.
(b) A new radio that is bigger.
(c) A new CD.
(d) A TV.

13. Who dies at the end of "O Youth and Beauty?"
(a) Louise.
(b) An unamed fan of Cash's.
(c) One of the Bentley children.
(d) Cash.

14. Where are the Whitemores from originally?
(a) California.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Manhatten.
(d) The Midwest.

15. What kind of story is the one with Irene and Jim Westcott?
(a) Drama.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does James Clancy talk to about his job and the people he meets there?

2. Whose gin does Amy pour down the sink?

3. Who continue to have terrible disagreements in "Clancy and the Tower of Babel"?

4. What is Lawrence's profession?

5. What is the name of the story about Cash Bentley?

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