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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maureen need money immediately?
(a) To get out of her parents' house.
(b) To pay Pat's bookie.
(c) To buy a gun.
(d) To make a deposit for her college application.

2. Why is Jules so anxious at the bank when cashing Bernard's checks?
(a) Jules is afraid he will be robbed.
(b) He doesn't believe that the checks are real.
(c) Jules has forged the check amounts.
(d) Jules is waiting for his accomplice to rob the bank.

3. How does Loretta feel about Mrs. Wendall?
(a) She is glad to have her as company.
(b) She is grateful to have her around to help with the children.
(c) She hates her meddling, overbearing attitude.
(d) She is jealous of Mrs. Wendall's relationship with Howard.

4. How does Maureen feel about her method of earning an income?
(a) She hates every moment of it, and hates her parents for forcing her to such lengths.
(b) She distances herself from it and focuses only on the money she is making.
(c) She doesn't mind it, and sometimes enjoys it.
(d) Her attitude about it is never expressed.

5. What does Pat see Maureen doing, in the last chapter of the first book?
(a) He sees her in a car with a man, her customer.
(b) He sees her looking through his wallet.
(c) He sees her putting her money away.
(d) He sees her sneaking out of the house after dark.

6. How does Maureen decide to make money?
(a) She sells her collection of porcelain dolls.
(b) She turns to prostitution.
(c) She tutors her classmates.
(d) She sells her grandmother's medication.

7. In what condition does Jules find Bernard?
(a) Being held hostage.
(b) Lying face-up, with his throat slashed.
(c) Drunk and passed out in an alley.
(d) Penniless and suicidal.

8. What year is it at the beginning of the second book, chapter 4?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1973.

9. What does Mrs. Wendall say about Jules's future?
(a) That he will wind up in the electric chair, and Mrs. Wendall will pull the switch.
(b) That he has to dress and behave as if he is richer than he is.
(c) That he will end up being a street-rat, just like his mother.
(d) That he needs to go to school in order to get a good job.

10. What is Loretta's situation at the beginning of the second book?
(a) She is pregnant and unemployed.
(b) She is not pregnant and still working.
(c) She is pregnant, but still working.
(d) She is not pregnant, but unemployed.

11. Why is Bernard killed?
(a) His involvement in underworld crime.
(b) The jealous rage of Faye's husband.
(c) The jealousy of a business rival.
(d) A mugging gone wrong.

12. Why does Faye take Jules home when she meets him?
(a) He is lightheaded from lack of food and sleep.
(b) She wants to rob him.
(c) She is attracted to him.
(d) He is shivering in the rain.

13. To whom does Loretta go for help while Howard is gone?
(a) Her father.
(b) Brock.
(c) Bernie.
(d) Rita.

14. Who cooks and waits up for Pat every night?
(a) No one.
(b) Loretta.
(c) Maureen.
(d) Betty.

15. When Pat comes home after witnessing Maureen's actions, what does he do?
(a) He beats Maureen severely.
(b) He talks to Loretta about Maureen's actions.
(c) He packs Maureen's things and throws them onto the lawn.
(d) He calls the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does most of the novel take place?

2. Why does Bernard give Jules three hundred dollars?

3. Where are Jules and Nadine at the end of Chapter 6 of the second book?

4. How does Loretta's family feel about Mrs. Wendall's placement in a nursing home?

5. How is Howard killed?

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