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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane

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Who is the woman who searches for Jimmie, and is rebuffed by him, late in the novel?

(A) Miss Smith

(B) The old woman from downstairs

(D) Hattie

Who saves young Jimmie during his fight with the street urchins?

(A) Maggie

(B) Father Kennedy

(D) Samuel

What does Maggie do in an attempt to freshen up the apartment to impress Pete?

(A) She buys a new carpet.

(B) She makes a lambrequin.

(D) She paints the walls.

What does Pete do for a living?

(A) He is a teamster.

(B) He is a bartender.

(D) He is a chimney-sweep.

What is the name of the friend who goes with Jimmie to fight Pete?

(A) Billie

(B) Eamon

(D) Leavon

What does Pete buy for Maggie on the occasion of their first night on the town?

(A) Flowers

(B) A lambrequin

(D) A beer

What does the old woman ask Jimmie to do in exchange for the right to sleep in her apartment while his parents are fighting?

(A) Chop her firewood

(B) Buy her beer

(D) Shovel her coal

What does Mary want to do to Maggie's dead body?

(A) She wants to drop her in the river.

(B) She wants to cremate her.

(D) She wants to bring her to church to ask for absolution for her soul.

How much money does Maggie make a week at her sweatshop?

(A) Three dollars

(B) Five dollars

(D) Twelve dollars

Which is not a place in this novel?

(A) The Bowery

(B) Greenwich Village

(D) Devil's Row

How does the novel refer--repeatedly and exclusively--to the person accompanying Nellie at the bar before Nellie lures Pete away from Maggie?

(A) "An affable gentleman"

(B) "A silly fop"

(D) "A simpering fool"

What surprises Pete on his first date with Maggie?

(A) She insists on paying her own way.

(B) She walks out of the bar in a huff.

(D) She refuses to kiss him goodnight.

What was the name under which Stephen Crane originally published Maggie?

(A) Frank Norris

(B) Johnston Smith

(D) D. Appleton

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