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

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

3. What is Cash's injury?
(a) Broken arm.
(b) Broken neck.
(c) Twisted ankle.
(d) A broken leg.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the story with Irene and Jim Westcott?

2. Who is Mrs. Pomeroy married to?

3. What is the title of the story about Amy Lawton?

4. How does Ralph try to improve the Whitmores lives?

5. What is Lawrence's childhood nickname?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Clancy almost get fired?

2. How is Baxter described?

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

4. How do Ralph and Laura react to a Ralph's new job and potential raise in salary?

5. What is the relationship between the Pomeroy children?

6. Why does Amy try to run away?

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

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

9. What does Laura do when she becomes pregnant?

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

(see the answer keys)

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