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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Laurette think Sammy married her?
(a) He needs saved.
(b) So she can play the role of a hostess.
(c) Because they sincerely love one another.
(d) He will inherit her money.

2. What does Sammy tell Al when Al asks him if he loves Ruth Mintz?
(a) He says she is the woman of his dreams.
(b) He doesn't know what love is.
(c) He asks how he would have time to love anyone.
(d) He would rather have Kit.

3. What do Al and Kit talk about when they walk to the beach?
(a) Running away together.
(b) Selling out to write for a bigger corporation.
(c) The state of The Writer's Guild.
(d) Sammy's success.

4. How is Sammy tricked by Laurette when she says she was looking at pictures all day in Chapter Eleven?
(a) She is lying to get him to fall in love with her.
(b) He believes she is trying to flatter him.
(c) She reels him in so that she can hurt him later.
(d) He thinks she is talking about the movies.

5. Why doesn't Sammy want Al to leave when Al says he better duck out in Chapter Ten?
(a) Sammy is having a mental breakdown.
(b) Sammy cannot stand to be alone.
(c) He has an offer to make Al.
(d) He needs to approach him about Al's bad past.

6. Where did Sammy get his name?
(a) His elementary school teacher gave it to him.
(b) When he was three and a half he changed it to the name of the neighbor kid.
(c) The kids on the playground changed it for him.
(d) His mother changed it for him when he got beat up in school.

7. Why does Kit think Hollywood is a tough place to work and live?
(a) Everyone is rushing to hit the jackpot.
(b) Hollywood has turned into a violent city.
(c) Nothing can be predicted.
(d) People are too easy to see through in Hollywood.

8. Why didn't Sammy have his Bar-mitzvah?
(a) Sammy refused because he did not believe in it.
(b) His parents could not afford it.
(c) The Rabbi caught Sammy stealing from the temple.
(d) The Rabbi told his father Sammy was not allowed because he did not practice his faith.

9. Some of the members of the Guild want to exclude others. Who do they want to exclude?
(a) Wealthy writers and those in the big business.
(b) Writers who are not wealthy and those who are outsiders.
(c) Writers from the South.
(d) Unpublished writers and writers who are still in school.

10. In Chapter Eleven, when Sammy tells Al he has everything, what is he referring to?
(a) Owning Hollywood.
(b) The world.
(c) Money.
(d) A studio, connections, and a dream woman.

11. How does Al react when Sammy accuses him of hating his guts in Chapter Twelve?
(a) He is speechless.
(b) He punches Sammy in the face then tells him he loves him.
(c) He says he doesn't hate him, but implies that he would never be like him.
(d) He tells him he does hate him and spits in his face.

12. In Chapter Eight, why does Al say it was a month he would never forget in Hollywood?
(a) Al and Sammy part ways.
(b) Julian passes away and Al knows the time has come to leave.
(c) Sammy got a good money deal for his play and he thinks it sums up how Hollywood is: a crazy and hopeful place.
(d) Al gets offered the deal of a lifetime: $80,000.00 for a play he wrote.

13. What kind of tensions does The Guild experience in Chapter Seven?
(a) Some of the members believe it is too much like a union.
(b) There is a lack of creativity among group members.
(c) The writers are too busy to care about The Guild.
(d) Sammy wants to shut them down.

14. In Chapter Ten, how does Al feel about meeting up with Sammy?
(a) Worried about the next stunt Sammy will pull.
(b) He doesn't think Sammy can haunt him anymore so he feels as if he will be entertained.
(c) Sick to his stomach.
(d) Curious as to why Sammy would want to see him again.

15. Why does Sammy ask Al to take Kit to the opening night of Sammy's play, "Live Wire?"
(a) Because he won't have time to socialize with Kit.
(b) Sammy is trying to make Kit fall in love with Al.
(c) He feels sorry for Al.
(d) Because Sammy has a date with Rita Royce.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Eleven, who does Sammy stand up for when he talks to Harrington?

2. In Chapter Eleven, how does Kit feel about Sammy's film?

3. Where does Al work when he returns to New York?

4. How does Harrington feel about Sammy marrying his daughter?

5. As a child, how did Sammy make his seventy-five cents?

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