Remember: Try again if your first choice is not correct!

1. Who is the most important person in this story?

   1.   ?    Clarence
   2.   ?    Joseph
   3.   ?    Harry
   4.   ?    Pop
   5.   ?    George

2. Joseph tells Clarence that George is thinkin about . . .

   1.   ?    getting married.
   2.   ?    killing himself.
   3.   ?    working for the Building and Loan.

3. Why didn't George didn't take the medicine to Mrs. Blaine?

   1.   ?    Because he was a "good-for-nothing".
   2.   ?    Because the medicine had poison in it.
   3.   ?    Because Mr. Gower was drunk.

4. Mr. Potter . . .

   1.   ?    owns the Building and Loan.
   2.   ?    stopped fighting with people after he was put on the Board of Directors.
   3.   ?    doesn't like George and his father.

5. George would like to . . .

   1.   ?    travel, go to college, and then do some important work.
   2.   ?    got to Europe, go to college, and then help his father.
   3.   ?    go to the dance and have a full life.

6. What do the underlined words mean?
   
   "At exactly ten forty-five PM, Earth time, he'll be thinking seriously of ending his life."

   1.   ?    killing himself
   2.   ?    doing something important with his life
   3.   ?    stopping one thing and doing something else

7. What does the underlined word mean?
   
   "This bottle you used, this bottle to make the medicine! It's poison!"
   
   

   1.   ?    something a bottle is made of
   2.   ?    something that could be very dangerous
   3.   ?    something that is used in a medicine

8. What does the underlined phrase mean?
   
   "I couldn't face being cooped up the rest of my life in a shabby little office... I'd go crazy."
   
   

   1.   ?    be upset and unhappy
   2.   ?    become very excited
   3.   ?    get mentally ill