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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. What is Baxter's reputation?
(a) Bold.
(b) Flirt.
(c) Shy.
(d) Promiscuous.

2. What is the name of the story with Irene and Jim Westcott?
(a) Little Jesus.
(b) Goodbye My Brother.
(c) Tifty.
(d) The Enormous Radio.

3. How is Mrs. Ryan related to Clarissa?
(a) She is her mother-in-law.
(b) Mother.
(c) Grandmother.
(d) Aunt.

4. What kind of employee is James Clancy?
(a) Ideal.
(b) Bad.
(c) So-so.
(d) Lazy.

5. What does Rosemary talk to Amy about?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Wine.
(c) Food.
(d) Loneliness and alcoholism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lawrence tell the family?

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

3. Who are the main characters in "Clancy in the Tower of Babel"?

4. How is Cash injured?

5. What is the reason for the family being together at Laud's Head?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Blake fire his secretary in "The Five Forty-Eight?"

2. What are the Pomeroys feelings about seeing each other at Laud's Head?

3. In "O City of Broken Dreams," how do the Malloys react to interest in the play Evarts has written?

4. How is Clarissa described in "The Chaste Clarissa?"

5. What is the background of the relationship between Ralph and Laura Whittemore?

6. What do the Pomeroy children do to irk Lawrence?

7. What is Cash's wife's life like?

8. How does Cash feel about his former days as a track star in "O Youth and Beauty?"

9. How does the story of Irene and Jim Westcott get its name?

10. How does Clancy do when he first starts his job in "Clancy in the Tower of Babel?"

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