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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 one of the things Nam tries to hide from his father when he first arrives at his apartment?
(a) His writing.
(b) His computer.
(c) His money.
(d) A bottle of Johnnie Walker.

2. What is the name of the main character in “Meeting Elise”?
(a) Olivia Luff.
(b) Henry Luff.
(c) Lee Henry.
(d) Henry Lee.

3. What does Luis ask the narrator when he has his gun pointing at his target’s face?
(a) If he should let him go.
(b) What he should do next.
(c) If he has the right guy.
(d) If he should kill him fast.

4. What name does Henry use for Elise’s fiancé when discussing him with Jacob Apelman?
(a) The Parasiter.
(b) The Loser.
(c) The Leech.
(d) The Chump.

5. What does Lester tell Jamie is going to happen at practice on Monday?
(a) Dory is going to beat Jamie up.
(b) The whole team is going to beat Jamie up.
(c) Jamie is getting kicked off the team.
(d) Lester is going to beat Jamie up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the girl Jamie likes in “Halflead Bay”?

2. Who approaches Alison and Jamie at the party to tell Alison that Dory is worried about her?

3. What is one thing Nam does to try to break his writer’s block?

4. What is Jamie’s nickname, which he is upset to find out his father knows when he hears him telling his mother about it during the storm?

5. How many stories has Nam written in the year he has spent at the writing workshop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamie’s mother tell him he should talk to John Thompson about?

2. Who is Cale and how does Jamie know him?

3. Where does Henry go to meet his daughter Elise and her fiancé before the concert and what happens there?

4. Who is Jason Apelman and what was his relationship to Olivia?

5. Why is Jamie praised at the school assembly at the start of “Halflead Bay”?

6. What does Cale confess to Jamie when he comes to his house to tell him that Tammie said Dory is going to beat Jamie up at practice?

7. When Henry arrives at Carnegie Hall to try to see Elise he is given a note from her. What does the note say?

8. What does Henry thinks when he sees Elise perform and spots her outside after the concert?

9. In “Love and Honor” why is Nam surprised to find his father in his apartment when he wakes up?

10. Whose website bio does Henry look at in the beginning of “Meeting Elise” and what does it say?

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