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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 does the narrator's ex say was the reason their marriage ended in "Wants"?
(a) They never invited the Bertrams for dinner.
(b) They never spent time with his parents.
(c) They never went on vacation.
(d) She cheated on him.

2. Who was sent to the Hospital for the Insane on Welfare Island in "Debts"?
(a) Anna.
(b) Maria.
(c) Lucia.
(d) Michael.

3. What gift does Virginia's husband give to her at the start of "An Interest in Life"?
(a) A set of towels.
(b) A new dress.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A broom.

4. What side job did Rose do in order to pay her rent?
(a) Hair dresser.
(b) Food delivery driver.
(c) Telephone operator.
(d) Making paper flowers.

5. What does Jerry say when Kitty asks what she would do without him in "Come on, Ye Sons of Art"?
(a) She would probably be happy.
(b) She would die.
(c) She would not be pregnant.
(d) She would be lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dotty get angry and leave Freddy's after spending a couple days at his place in "The Contest"?

2. Why does Faith try to urge Tonto to play outside with Richard and Lester in "A Subject of Childhood"?

3. What does Faith ask Ellen's son Billy at her funeral?

4. Why does Dolly sit on the stoop twice a week in "Distance"?

5. Why did Anna not cry when Michael died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John and Virginia's relationship after her husband leaves in "An Interest in Life."

2. Describe the young boys from "Gloomy Tune."

3. In "Faith in the Afternoon," when Faith learns about what has happened to her old friend Tess she says Tess never guessed her life were turn out like that. What happened to Tess? What things happened to Faith and Anita Franklin that they would have never guessed?

4. Why is Shirley's mother uncomfortable about her performing in her school's Christmas play? What theme does Shirley note in the play?

5. What does Clifford say to Faith in "A Subject of Childhood" which angers her? How does she react?

6. Where does Virginia's husband say he is going at the start of "An Interest in Life"? What gift does he give her? How does she feel about this gift? What does she tell Mrs. Raftery when she asks where her husband is going?

7. in "An Irrevocable Diameter," how do Cindy's parents react when she comes home after a night out with Charles C. Charly?

8. How does Eddie help the narrator find a job in "The Floating Truth"? Why does she become upset about work at the end?

9. Describe Fred and Dotty's relationshp? Why does she leave him? What money-making idea does she approach him with?

10. Why were Josie and Browny unable to marry? How often did they stay in touch after?

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