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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color uniform did Frank wear when he was a houseman?

2. What type of food had Frank tried to get into the Sixty-eight Street Playhouse when he went there one time with the food in his hand?

3. What was Emer's brother's name?

4. In Chapter 7, how much money was Frank sending home every week for his mother?

5. After he left the army, how much did Frank make at his first job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Frank took lemon meringue pie and ginger ale to watch Hamlet at a playhouse?

2. What were Frank's job duties when he returned to working at Port Warehouses?

3. Why didn't Frank wander the streets of Manhattan after he shaved his head?

4. What did Mr. Herbert say to Frank and the class when Frank wrote about Jonathan Swift?

5. Why was Di Angelo confined to barracks the weekend that Frank lost his three-day pass?

6. Why didn't Frank hit a ship's officer who made fun of the town where he was from?

7. What did the doctor tell Frank caused his bad eyes and what treatment did the doctor recommend?

8. How did Corporal Dunphy show Frank how to clean his rifle?

9. How did the priest get back to the New Yorker after he drank too much?

10. Why did Frank have to look for a lost napkin when he was working at the Biltmore?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why Frank worked temporary jobs and how the jobs worked out for him.

Essay Topic 2

Frank finally was able to enroll in college. Discuss the events that led to Frank's enrollment in college and how he got accepted without a high school diploma.

Essay Topic 3

Frank wondered why America was so hard and complicated that he had trouble seeing Hamlet with a lemon meringue pie and a bottle of ginger ale. Compare going to the movie going experience in Limerick and in New York, especially as it related to taking in food.

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