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Progress: 1 of 17 questions
Sure is best known for but how much do you know about his lesser known work ?
In
A Perfect Day for Banana Fish
the story opens with newly married Mrs. Glass on the phone with her mother. Meanwhile, hubby Seymour Glass is not in the opening scenes of the story. Where is he?
in the bathroom
on the beach
in the bar
out driving in their rental car
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In
Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut
Eloise is playing hostess to her school chum Mary Jane. If Mary Jane were to say, what vice would Mary Jane say that she's most worried about Eloise adopting?
chain-smoking
over-eating
drinking too much
sleeping all day
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Progress: 3 of 17 questions
In
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
Ginnie Mannox goes into her friend Selena Graff's apartment for the first time and meets a number of the people in her friend's life. What was the original reason as to why she was there?
to recover some homework that Selena borrowed
she'd been invited over for high tea
she wanted Selena to pay her share of their cab fare
she was curious about /enamored with Selena's older brother
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Progress: 4 of 17 questions
In
The Laughing Man
, who was the Laughing Man?
a character in a story that the Comanches were being told
a peculiar man that the Comanches saw in Central Park
The father of one of the kids in the Comanches
None of the above
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Progress: 5 of 17 questions
In
Down at the Dinghy
, just who is down at the dinghy when the story opens?
Mr. Tannenbaum
Mrs. Tannenbaum Née Glass
Lionel, their son
Mrs. Snell the cook
Sandra, the housekeeper
George, the handyman
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Progress: 6 of 17 questions
The story
Down at the Dinghy
, might be said to be most nearly about...
alcoholism
anti-semitism
infidelity
depression
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Progress: 7 of 17 questions
In
A Perfect Day for Banana Fish
where did the newlyweds go on their honeymoon?
fly-fishing in Colorado
to Paris, the city of love
to Florida
to a ski lodge in the Adirondacks
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Progress: 8 of 17 questions
It might be said that in
Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut
Eloise drinks because she's unhappy. What's the main source of her unhappiness?
she's barren
she was a bright capable student and is now stuck as only a housewife
she's a failed author
her real love was killed in the war
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Progress: 9 of 17 questions
In
The Laughing Man
, what do the boys known as "the Comanches" call their adult leader?
Kimosabe
Drives the Bus
Chief
Al - short for Algonquin
Bruce - Because his name is really Adam
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Progress: 10 of 17 questions
In
For Esmé with Love and Squalor
the story starts outside the United States. Where does it start?
In England
In Japan
In Italy
In Egypt
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Progress: 11 of 17 questions
In
For Esmé with Love and Squalor
Esmé gives the narrator something. What?
a venereal disease
her father's wristwatch
an empty journal for him to fill
a package of cigarettes
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Progress: 12 of 17 questions
In
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
where is Lee for the majority of the story?
in the bathroom, answering the call of nature
in a taxi-cab headed to Greenwich Village
in Central Park watching the ice-skaters
in bed with an unidentified girl
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Progress: 13 of 17 questions
In
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
where does the title of the story come from?
a personals ad that the narrator is reading
it's a line from a poem that Arthur wrote for his wife
it's never explained
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Progress: 14 of 17 questions
In
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"
, who/what is De Daumier-Smith?
it's a private boy's prep school
it's a pseudonym made up by the narrator
it's the narrator's Brooklyn born room-mate
it's the waitress that the narrator has fallen for at the MOMA
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Progress: 15 of 17 questions
In
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"
, the narrator is teaching a correspondence course in art. Who is his star pupil?
a prisoner in a Kansas penitentiary
a baby photographer from Florida
a nun in a convent outside Toronto
a soldier serving in Korea
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Progress: 16 of 17 questions
In
Teddy
where is Teddy during the story?
asleep in the back of a taxi-cab
reading on a cross-country train
on an ocean liner
in a hot air balloon
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Progress: 17 of 17 questions
In the story
Teddy
, What might be the first thing people say about Teddy's hair?
that it needs a haircut
that it's a mohawk
that it's turned prematurely white
that he's bald
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