Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The song made him awfully sad. Dora was in the back parlor having a cup of tea when William came in. She said, "What's the matter, you sick?"
"No," said William. "But what's the percentage? I feel _________. I think I'll bump myself off."
Dora had handled plenty of neurotics in her time. Kid 'em out of it was her motto. "Well, do it on your own time and don't mess up the rugs," she said
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lee _________. He knew it didn't matter what he charged. He wasn't going to get it anyway. He might just as well make it a really sturdy face-saving sum. "Fi' dolla' week," said Lee.
Mack played it through to the end. "I'll have to talk to the boys about it," he said dubiously
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lee's finger came to a gentle rest on the change mat. He was _________. He knew that. There was left to him only the possibility of saving face and Mack was likely to be very generous about that. Lee said, "You like pay lent my place? You like live there same hotel?"
Mack smiled broadly and he was generous
Choose the right preposition: "Don't you know you can't lay around here? You got to get off. This is private property!"
The soldiers did not even seem to hear him They smiled on and the girls were stroking their hair over the temples. At last ... slow motion one of the soldiers turned his head so that his cheek was cradled between the girl's legs
Choose the right preposition: "You look done in," Dora said.
"I am," Doc admitted. "I haven't had any sleep for about a week."
"I know," said Dora. "I hear it's bad. Comes ... a bad time too."
Choose the right preposition: He smiled benevolently at the caretaker. "Why don't you take a flying fuggut the moon?" he said kindly and he turned back to look _________ the girl.
The sun lighted her blonde hair and she scratched him over one ear. They didn't even see the caretaker go back to his house
Choose the right preposition: Mack and the boys and the captain sat down _________ the ground to have one last short one and to map their campaign. And the plan was bold.
During the millennia that frogs and men have lived in the same world, it is probable that men have hunted frogs.
Choose the right preposition: Mack said, "He give me that jug _________ whiskey, didn't he? You heard him?"
"Sure he did," said Eddie. "I heard him."
"And he give me a pup?"
"Sure, pick of the litter. We all heard him
Choose the right preposition: The medical profession was very busy, and besides, Cannery Row was not considered a very good financial risk.
Now Doc ... the Western Biological Laboratory had no right to practice medicine
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: "Good," said Mack. "I knew Doc could (to depend) on you. I'll get Gay right to work on that truck." He turned about to leave. "By the way," he said. "Doc's paying us five cents apiece for those frogs. We're going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just 'til we can get back with the frogs?"
"No!" said Lee Chong.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: "No," said Doc. "I (to tell) you. I have to drive to La Jolla tonight to make tomorrow's tide."
"Oh," said Mack dispiritedly. "Oh. Well, don't you worry about it, Doc. Maybe we can get Lee Chong's old truck."
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Doc's got to go south and I and the boys said we'd (to help) him out. I think a guy's friends ought to help him out of a hole when they can, especially a nice guy like Doc. Why I bet he spends sixty seventy dollars a month with you."
Lee Chong remained silent and watchful. His fat finger barely moved on the change mat but it flicked slightly like a tense cat's tail.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Lee put back his head so that he could see Mack through his half-glasses. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with the proposition. The truck really wouldn't (to run). Gay really was a good mechanic and the order for gasoline was definite evidence of good faith.
"How long you be gone?" Lee asked.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mack plunged into his thesis. "Will you let us (to take) your old truck to go up Carmel Valley for frogs for Doc – for good old Doc?"
Lee Chong smiled in triumph. "Tluck no good," he said. "Bloke down."
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mack said, "Doc, it's my own invention but I'll (to tell) you because you're a good friend. You make a big wire trap and then you don't use bait. You see – well – you use a lady cat. Catch every God damn tom cat in the country that way."
From the laboratory Mack crossed the street and went through the swinging screen doors into Lee Chong's grocery.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mack was smiling broadly. "Doc," he (to say), "you can get to sleep tonight and not even give frogs a thought. We'll have piss pots full of them by the time you get back."
Doc watched him go a little uneasily. Doc's dealings with Mack and the boys had always been interesting but rarely had they been profitable to Doc. He remembered ruefully the time Mack sold him fifteen tom cats and by night the owners came and got every one. "Mack," he had asked, "why all tom cats?"
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The intestine was in the sand where the dog had (to abandon) it.
Then the French doctor was made to collect the parts. He was forced to wash them reverently and pick out as much sand as possible.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They walked on together and Mr. Carriaga told about the little boy and the dog.
At the Adobe Bar a number of citizens (to be) gathered for their morning conversation
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Without much discussion a committee formed made up of everyone there. The stern men walked quickly to the gulch and across the foot bridge and they hammered on the door of the doctor who (to have) studied in France.
He had worked late.
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s grandfather (from his father’s side) was russian B) Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Italy
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
А) Steinbeck’s father worked in California
В) In California Steinbeck worked as a painter
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After leaving New York, Steinbeck traveled back to California
B) John Steinbeck studied and received his degree
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After leaving New York, Steinbeck traveled back to Moscow
B) Steinbeck’s first work was published in a university magazine
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Finland
B) Cannery Row a tone
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Ireland
B) John Steinbeck studied from 1919 to 1965
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to such places as England
B) John Steinbeck studied in MUH (SGA)
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to such places as Haiti
B) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Scotland
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Sweden
B) Steinbeck never received the Pulitzer Prize
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As a journalist for a New York newspaper John Steinbeck was fired
B) John Steinbeck studied with long intervals in between classes
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As a journalist for a New York newspaper John Steinbeck was imprisoned
B) Steinbeck’s last work was published after his death
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row a dogma
B) Cannery Row is the gathered and lost
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row a habit
B) Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a song
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row a nostalgia
B) Cannery Row is tin, pin and bin
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row a quality of fight
B) Cannery Row a dream
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row a quality of light
B) Cannery Row a power
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row a ringtone
B) Cannery Row is weedy lots and junk heaps
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row a tone
B) Cannery Row a box of chocolate
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is and little crowded groceries
B) Cannery Row a drink
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is and little crowded whore houses
B) John Steinbeck was a marine
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is as the man once said, "theaters, museums, galleries, and sons of teachers"
B) Cannery Row is tin and iron and rust and splintered wood
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is chipped pavement
B) Cannery Row a vibrating noise
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is chipped wood
B) Cannery Row is junky lots and weedy heaps
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is nuclear laboratories
B) Cannery Row is restaurants and whore houses
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is tonky honks
B) Cannery Row is and laboratories and flophouses
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row is vobla and raki and basturma
B) Cannery Row is restaurants and publishing houses
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cannery Row isn’t what Its inhabitants are
B) Cannery Row is honky tonks
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked
B) John (Ernest) Steinbeck died in New England
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked as a caretaker
B) Steinbeck’s studies were short, he was lazy
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked as a chemist
B) John (Ernest) Steinbeck was born on Sahalin
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked as a drug-taker
B) Cannery Row is as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,"
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked as a historian
B) Cannery Row a quality of light
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked as a hod-carrier
B) Steinbeck died for a short time and was reborn
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked as a sculpter
B) Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked as a strip-dancer
B) Cannery Row a stink
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Steinbeck worked for a Lake Tahoe (Nevada) estate
B) John (Ernest) Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1920
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In California Using fictional situations in California, Steinbeck began writing in a small lonely cottage
B) Cannery Row is Its inhabitants are
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) John Steinbeck studied with long intervals in between because he had to work
B) John (Ernest) Steinbeck died on December 32
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) John Steinbeck studied with long intervals in between because teachers had to eat
B) Cannery Row a grating noise
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) John Steinbeck was fired because of writing his own opinions instead of facts
B) Steinbeck died and his books died with him
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) John Steinbeck was fired because of writing vulgarities
B) Steinbeck’s first work was published in 1924
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) John Steinbeck was writing his own opinions instead of facts
B) John (Ernest) Steinbeck was born in Califanovo
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck during World War II
B) Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for a horror story in 1962
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck lived most of his life in Cannery Row
B) John Steinbeck studied in MUH
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck lived most of his life in Cannery Row
B)Steinbeck with his wife traveled to North Africa
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck received the Pulitzer Prize, but he thought it was a Nobel Prize
B) Steinbeck’s last work was published by Eileen
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to South Africa
B) Cannery Row is and laboratories and flophouses
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck with his wife weren’t able to travel to the Soviet Union
B) Steinbeck’s first work was published in a university comics
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck worked as an itinerant fruit picker
B) Steinbeck is alive
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck worked in Europe
B) Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for chemistry
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck worked in the Information Bureau
B) John Steinbeck studied with long intervals in between classes
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s father worked in a county hospital
B) Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to and the Soviet Union
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s first great piece of work was Tortilla Flats
B) John Steinbeck was a marine
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s first great piece of work was written in 1935
B) Steinbeck did a lot of boxinng
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s first great piece of work was written in 1985
B) Steinbeck’s first great piece of work was Tortilla food
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s grandfather (from his father’s side) was German
B) Steinbeck studied marine biology
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s grandfather and grandmother left him
B) Steinbeck’s last work was published in 1975
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s grandmother (from his father’s side) was from an old line of family
B) Steinbeck studied, but did not receive his degree
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s grandmother (from his father’s side) was from an old line of Indian family
B) In all, Steinbeck visited the Soviet Union three times
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s grandmother (from his father’s side) was from Honolulu
B) Steinbeck visited the Soviet Union
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s grandmother (from his father’s side) was from Massachusetts
B) Steinbeck’s father worked for the county of Monterey
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s had three grandfathers and a grandmother
B) Steinbeck’s last work was published by his wife
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Steinbeck’s mother worked at Cannery Row
B) Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Using real life situations, Steinbeck began writing in a small lonely cottage in California
B) John (Ernest) Steinbeck died in 1986
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mack was the elder, leader, mentor, and to a small extent the exploiter of a little group of men who had in common no families, no money, and no ambitions beyond food, _________, and contentment
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A broad golden wedding ring on the middle finger of his left hand was his only jewelry and with it he silently tapped on the rubber change mat from _________ the little rubber tits had long been worn
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But to get back to the evening. Horace was on the trestles with the embalming needles in _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But whereas most men in their search for contentment destroy themselves and fall wearily short of their _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Cousins, nephews, _________ and daughters-in-law waited on the rest of the store, but Lee never left the cigar counter
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Eddie who filled in as a bartender at La Ida, Hughie and Jones who occasionally collected frogs and _________ for Western Biological, were currently living in those large rusty pipes in the lot next to Lee Chong's
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Follow it past the cypress tree, across the railroad track, up a chicken walk with cleats, and you will come to a long low building which for a long time was used _________ a storage place for fish meal
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He knew he could not have helped _________, but he wished he might have known and perhaps tried to help
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He never pressed his clients, but when the bill became _________ large, Lee cut off credit
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He trusted his clients until further trust became ridiculous. Sometimes he made business errors, but even these he turned to advantage in good will if in no other _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was tapping the rubber _________ with his gold ring and considering the problem when the door opened and Mack came in
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He wasn't, but if one wanted to spend money, he _________available
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He wore half-glasses and _________ he looked at everything through them, he had to tilt his head back to see in the distance
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His fat delicate hands rested on the glass, the fingers moving like small restless _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Interest and discounts, addition, subtraction he worked out on the abacus with his little restless sausage fingers, and his brown friendly eyes roved over the grocery and his _________ flashed at the customers
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to _________ himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was just a great big roofed _________ and it belonged to a worried gentleman named Horace Abbeville
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was small and crowded but within its single room a man could find everything he needed or wanted to live and to be happy – clothes, food, both fresh and canned, _________, tobacco, fishing equipment, machinery, boats, cordage, caps, pork chops
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was that _________ with the Palace Flophouse and Grill. Anyone but Lee Chong would have considered the transaction a total loss
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was too far away and anyone can go in through a _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee Chong considered it as a storehouse for groceries, as a kind of warehouse, but he gave that up on second _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee Chong did not stand _________the whiskey and the customer without reason
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee Chong stiffened ever _________ slightly when Mack came in and his eyes glanced quickly about the store to make sure that Eddie or Hazel or Hughie or Jones had not come in too and drifted away among the groceries
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee Chong stood in back of the cigar counter and his nice brown _________ were turned inward on a calm eternal Chinese sorrow
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee was round-faced _________ courteous
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee _________ nodded and waited
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee's mouth was full and benevolent and the flash of gold when he smiled was _________ and warm
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lee's position in the community surprised him as _________ as he could be surprised. Over the course of the years everyone in Cannery Row owed him money
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mack and his friends approached contentment casually, quietly, and absorbed it _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mack laid out his _________ with a winning honesty
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Now Lee Chong owned the Abbeville building – a good roof, a good floor, two windows and a _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: On an evening when he stood in his place on a pad of newspaper _________ keep his feet warm, he contemplated with humor and sadness a business deal that had been consummated that afternoon and reconsummated later that same afternoon
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Perhaps he didn't get it. Maybe his wealth was entirely in unpaid _________. But he lived well and he had the respect of all his neighbors
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Rather than walk into the town up the hill, the client usually paid or tried _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That is, they lived in the pipes when it was damp but in fine weather they lived in the shadow of the black cypress tree at the top of the _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The grocery opened at dawn and did not close until the last wandering vagrant dime had been spent or retired for the _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The limbs folded down and made a canopy under which a man could lie and look at the flow and vitality of Cannery _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The one commodity Lee Chong did not keep could be had across the lot at _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The top of the glass was his _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Then he would go secretly to _________ Francisco and enter a hospital until the trouble blew over
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: True it was piled high with fish meal _________the smell of it was delicate and penetrating
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: What he did with his money, no _________ ever knew
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When the tong wars were going on in California, it happened now and then that Lee found a price on his _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When you leave the grocery, if you walk catty-cornered across the grass-grown lot, threading your way among the great rusty pipes thrown out of the canneries, you will see a path worn in the _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: You could buy at _________ Chong's a pair of slippers, a silk kimono, a quarter pint of whiskey and a cigar
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: You could work out combinations _________ fit almost any mood
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: _________ that Lee Chong was avaricious
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: _________ very practical minds had on occasion tried to divert his attention to another part of the store
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: _________. had already underwritten the funeral and sent a wash basket of groceries to the stricken families
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A gray damp cloud folded over William's heart and he walked slowly out and down the hall and knocked on Eva Flanegan's door. She had red hair and went to confession every week. Eva was quite a _________girl with a big family of brothers and sisters but she was an unpredictable drunk
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: After a while William went back to the Bear Flag and he watched them through the window and he heard Mack raise his voice saying, "But God damn it, I hate a pimp!" Now this was obviously _________ although William didn't know that. Mack and the boys just didn't like William
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And he stood in the pretty little cemetery where you can hear the waves drumming always. William thought dark and _________ thoughts. No one loved him. No one cared about him. They might call him a watchman but he was a pimp – a dirty pimp, the lowest thing in the world
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And then he thought how he had a right to live and be happy just like _________ else, by God he had. He walked back angrily but his anger went away when he came to the Bear Flag and climbed the steps
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Before Alfy the present watchman took over, there was a tragedy in the Bear Flag Restaurant which saddened everyone. The previous watchman was named William and he was a dark and lonesome-looking man. In the daytime when his duties were few he would _________ tired of female company
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Eva _________ at him. "That's a dirty, lousy, stinking sin," she cried, and then, "Wouldn't it be like you to get the joint pinched just when I got almost enough kick to take a trip to East St. Louis
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He walked out one day and sat on the pipe. Conversation _________and an uneasy and hostile silence fell on the group. After a while William went disconsolately back to the Bear Flag and through the window he saw the conversation spring up again and it saddened him. He had a dark and ugly face and a mouth twisted with brooding
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His loose sole flap-flapped on the street. He went up the hill to the second street, went through a gate in a high board fence and was not seen again until evening. People, sleeping, heard his flapping shoe go by and they awakened for a _________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was evening and the juke box was playing Harvest Moon and William remembered that the first _________ who ever gaffed for him used to like that song before she ran away and got married and disappeared
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Now and then as he watched them he saw them take out a pint of Old Tennis Shoes and wiping the neck of the bottle on a sleeve, raise the pint one after another. And William began to wish he could join that good _________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Now William's heart broke. The bums would not receive him socially. They _________ that he was too far beneath them. William had always been introspective and self-accusing. He put on his hat and walked out along the sea, clear out to the Lighthouse
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She was painting her nails and messing them pretty badly when William went in and he knew she was bagged and Dora wouldn't let a bagged girl work. Her fingers were nail polish to the first joint and she was _________. "What's eating you?" she said. William grew angry too. "I'm going to bump myself off," he said fiercely
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The next _________ he went again and this time he took a pint of whiskey. Mack and the boys drank the whiskey, after all they weren't crazy, but all the talking they did was "Good luck," and "Lookin' at you."
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Through the windows he could see Mack and the boys sitting on the pipes in the vacant _________, dangling their feet in the mallow weeds and taking the sun while they discoursed slowly and philosophically of matters of interest but of no importance
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You're a no-good bastard." She was still screaming at him when William _________ her door after him and went to the kitchen. He was very tired of women. The Greek would be restful after women
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: There are normally twelve _________ in the house, counting the old ones, a Greek cook, and a man who is known as a watchman but who undertakes all manner of delicate and dangerous tasks
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: ... And Lee carefully packed the bones, femurs, and tibias really straight, skull in the middle, with pelvis and clavicle surrounding it and ribs curving on either side. Then Lee Chong sent his boxed and brittle grandfather over the western sea to lie at last in ground made _________ by his ancestors
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A hard man with a can of beans – a soft man with the bones of his grandfather. For Lee Chong dug into the grave on China Point and found the yellow bones, the skull with gray ropy hair still _________ to it
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Alfred has triumphed over his environment and has brought his environment up with him. He knows what men should be there and what men shouldn't be there. He knows more about the home life of Monterey citizens than _________ in town
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And by the same token she is hated by the twisted and lascivious sisterhood of married spinsters whose husbands respect the home but don't _________ it very much
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: As for Dora – she leads a ticklish existence. Being against the law, at least against its letter, she must be twice as law abiding as anyone else. There must be no drunks, no fighting, no _________, or they close Dora up. Also being illegal Dora must be especially philanthropic. Everyone puts the bite on her
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Dora is a great woman, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and a taste for Nile green evening _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Dora saw the hungry children of Cannery Row and the jobless fathers and the worried women and Dora paid grocery bills right and left for two years and very nearly went _________ in the process
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Dora's girls are well _________ and pleasant. They never speak to a man on the street although he may have been in the night before
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He saw himself _________ Mack's request and he saw the broken glass from the windows. Then Mack would offer a second time to watch over and preserve Lee's property – and at the second refusal, Lee could smell the smoke, could see the little flames creeping up the walls. Mack and his friends would try to help to put it out
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If the police give a dance for their pension fund and everyone else gives a dollar, Dora has to give fifty dollars. When the Chamber of Commerce improved its gardens, the merchants each gave five dollars but Dora was asked for and _________a hundred
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In a moment of local love Dora named her place the Bear Flag Restaurant and the stories are _________. of people who have gone in for a drink
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lee Chong is more than a Chinese grocer. He must be. Perhaps he is evil balanced and held suspended by good – an Asiatic planet held to its orbit by the pull of Lao Tze and held away from Lao Tze by the centrifugality of abacus and cash register – Lee Chong suspended, spinning, whirling among groceries and _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lee tilted his head back and looked into Mack's eyes through the half-glasses and Lee's tapping finger slowed its tempo as he thought deeply. In Mack's eyes there was good will and good fellowship and a desire to make everyone _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Mack and the boys avoid the trap, walk around the poison, step over the noose while a generation of trapped, poisoned, and trussed-up men _________ at them and call them no-goods, come-to-bad-ends, blots-on-the-town, thieves, rascals, bums
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Of her girls some are fairly inactive due to age and infirmities, but Dora never puts them aside although, as she says, some of them don't turn three tricks a month but they go right on eating three _________ a day
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Once in the Palace Flophouse, the boys set about _________ it. A chair appeared and a cot and another chair. A hardware store supplied a can of red paint not reluctantly because it never knew about it, and as a new table or footstool appeared it was painted, which not only made it very pretty but also disguised it to a certain extent in case a former owner looked in
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a _________ and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She keeps an honest, one price house, sells no hard _________., and permits no loud or vulgar talk in her house
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The boys could sit in front of their door and look down across the track and across the lot and across the street right into the front windows of Western Biological. They could hear the music from the laboratory at night. And their eyes _________ Doc across the street when he went to Lee Chong's for beer
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The boys moved in and the fish meal moved out. No one knows who named the house that has been known ever after as the Palace Flophouse and Grill. In the pipes and under the cypress tree there had been no _________ for furniture and the little niceties which are not only the diagnosis but the boundaries of our civilization
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then the Thing becomes the Word and back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern. The Word sucks up Cannery Row, digests it and spews it out, and the Row has taken the shimmer of the green world and the sky-reflecting _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They are the Virtues, the Graces, the Beauties of the hurried mangled craziness of Monterey and the cosmic Monterey where men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men _________ for love destroy everything lovable about them
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: This is no fly-by-night cheap clip-joint but a sturdy, virtuous club, built, maintained, and disciplined by Dora who, madam and girl for fifty years, has through the exercise of special gifts of tact and honesty, charity and a certain realism, made herself respected by the intelligent, the learned, and the _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Up in back of the vacant lot is the railroad track and the Palace Flophouse. But on the left-hand boundary of the lot is the stern and stately whore house of Dora Flood; a decent, _________, honest, old-fashioned sporting house where a man can take a glass of beer among friends
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Why then did Lee Chong feel slightly surrounded? Why did his mind pick its way as delicately as a cat through cactus? It had been sweetly done, almost in a spirit of philanthropy. Lee's mind _________ ahead at the possibilities – no, they were probabilities, and his finger tapping slowed still further
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: With everything else it is the same, Red Cross, Community Chest, Boy Scouts, Dora's unsung, unpublicized, _________ dirty wages of sin lead the list of donations. But during the depression she was hardest hit
Choose the right preposition: "During Prohibition I got some corn whiskey and laid it away. I just got to thinking I'd like to see how it is. It's pretty old now. I'd almost forgot it. You see – my wife – " he let it go _________ that because it was apparent that they understood.
Choose the right preposition: A new regiment moved into the Presidio and a new bunch _________ soldiers always shop around a good deal before they settle down
Choose the right preposition: A wave of frantic, frustrated frogs, big ones, little ones, brown ones, green ones, men frogs and women frogs, a wave of them broke over the bank, crawled, leaped, scrambled. They clambered up the grass, they clutched _________each other, little ones rode on big ones. And then – horror on horror – the flashlights found them
Choose the right preposition: All in all it was a terrific month and right in the middle of it the influenza epidemic had to break out. It came _________ the whole town
Choose the right preposition: And during that time a pattern of hunt and parry has developed. The man with net or bow or lance or gun creeps noiselessly, as he thinks, _________ the frog. The pattern requires that the frog sit still, sit very still and wait.
Choose the right preposition: And the feet and wildly plunging bodies followed them. A few frogs lost their heads and floundered among the feet and got through and these were saved. But the majority decided to leave this pool forever, to find a new home _________ a new country where this kind of thing didn't happen
Choose the right preposition: And the rush and drag of the waves can be heard as they splash in among the piles of the canneries. It is a time of great peace, a deserted time, a little era of rest. Cats drip over the fences and slither like syrup over the ground to look _________ fish heads
Choose the right preposition: Before he knew it he found himself running from shanty to shanty taking temperatures, giving physics, borrowing and delivering blankets and even taking food from house to house where mothers looked at him with inflamed eyes from their beds, and thanked him and put the full responsibility _________ their children's recovery on him
Choose the right preposition: Benjamin Peabody and his wife had it. Excelentisima Maria Antonia Field had it. The whole Gross family came down _________ it
Choose the right preposition: Cannery Row which produces a tougher breed than the rest _________ the town was late in contracting it, but finally it got them too. The schools were closed
Choose the right preposition: Doc said, "You know there is. People get so scared and helpless. Take the Ransels – they're scared _________ death and they're scared to be alone. If you, or some of the girls, could just sit with them."
Choose the right preposition: Doc was _________ almost constant demand. Dora consulted him and detailed the girls where he suggested. And all the time the business at the Bear Flag was booming. The juke box never stopped playing
Choose the right preposition: Dora was having trouble _________her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it
Choose the right preposition: Dora was short handed just at that time too, for Eva Flanegan had gone to East St. Louis _________ a vacation, Phyllis Mae had broken her leg getting out of the roller coaster in Santa Cruz, and Elsie Doublebottom had made a novena and wasn't much good for anything else
Choose the right preposition: Dora, who was soft as a mouse's belly, could be as hard as carborundum. She went back to the Bear Flag and organized it _________ service. It was a bad time for her but she did it. The Greek cook made a ten-gallon cauldron of strong soup and kept it full and kept it strong
Choose the right preposition: Frogs don't resent that. But how could they have anticipated Mack's new method? How could they have foreseen the horror that followed? The sudden flashing of lights, the shouting and squealing _________ men, the rush of feet. Every frog leaped, plopped into the pool, and swam frantically to the bottom
Choose the right preposition: Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done that way. Now and then the net is too quick, the lance pierces, the gun flicks and that frog is gone, but it is all fair and _________ the framework.
Choose the right preposition: From the rocks near the Hopkins Marine Station comes the barking of sea lions like the baying of hounds. The air is cool and fresh. In the back gardens the gophers push up the morning mounds of fresh damp earth and they creep out and drag flowers _________ their holes
Choose the right preposition: He decided that his wife would like Mack and the boys if she only knew them. Finally he went to sleep _________ the floor with his head among the puppies. Mack and the boys poured themselves a short one and regarded him seriously.
Choose the right preposition: He felt it was an honor to have them burn his house clear down, if they wanted to. "My wife is a wonderful woman," he said _________ a kind of peroration: "Most wonderful woman. Ought to of been a man. If she was a man I wouldn' of married her.".
Choose the right preposition: He laughed a long time over that and repeated it three or four times and resolved to remember it so he could tell it _________ a lot of other people. He filled a jug with whiskey and gave it to Mack. He wanted to go to live with them in the Palace Flophouse
Choose the right preposition: Hysterically the frogs displaced from their placid spots swam ahead _________ the crazy thrashing feet and the feet came on. Frogs are good swimmers but they haven't much endurance. Down the pool they went until finally they were bunched and crowded against the end
Choose the right preposition: In addition to everything else there were the regulars – the steady customers who had been coming down for years, the laborers from the gravel pits, the riders from the ranches, the railroad men who came in the front door, and the city officials and prominent business men who came in the rear entrance back _________ the tracks and who had little chintz sitting rooms assigned to them
Choose the right preposition: In the gray time after the light has come and before the sun has risen, the Row seems to hang suspended out of time _________ a silvery light. The street lights go out, and the weeds are a brilliant green.
Choose the right preposition: It is doubtful whether the captain had ever had so much fun. He was indebted _________ Mack and the boys. Later when the curtains caught fire and were put out with the little towels, the captain told the boys not to mind it
Choose the right preposition: It was not his fault that everyone _________ the Row came to him for medical advice
Choose the right preposition: It was the busiest time the girls _________ the Bear Flag could remember. Everyone was glad when it was over
Choose the right preposition: Mrs. Talbot and her daughter _________ the San Carlos Hotel had it. Tom Work had it
Choose the right preposition: Now the captain seemed to feel that they were doing him a favor. He didn't want them to leave. He said hesitantly, "S'pose you boys would like a little something to warm you up before you go out _________ the frogs?"
Choose the right preposition: Silent early morning dogs parade majestically picking and choosing judiciously whereon to pee. The sea gulls come flapping in to sit on the cannery roofs to await the day of refuse. They sit _________ the roof peaks shoulder to shoulder
Choose the right preposition: Tens and fifties of them were flung into the gunny sacks, and the sacks filled with tired, frightened, and disillusioned frogs, with dripping, whimpering frogs. Some got away, of course, and some had been saved in the pool. But never in frog history had such an execution taken place. Frogs _________ the pound, by the fifty pounds
Choose the right preposition: The boys agreed that they wouldn't mind a short one either. The captain got a flashlight and went down in the cellar. They could hear him moving lumber and boxes about and he came back upstairs with a five-gallon oak keg _________ his arms. He set it on the table.
Choose the right preposition: The captain had found them flashlights that worked. Hughie and Jones carried gunny sacks. As they drew quietly near, the frogs heard them coming. The night had been roaring _________ frog song and then suddenly it was silent.
Choose the right preposition: The captain knocked out the oak plug from the end of the keg and got glasses down _________ the shelf that had scallop-edged paper laid on it.
Choose the right preposition: The corrugated iron _________ the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum or old pewter. No automobiles are running then. The street is silent of progress and business
Choose the right preposition: The doctors of Monterey – and there were enough of them to take care of the ordinary diseases, accidents and neuroses – were running crazy. They had more business than they could do among clients who if they didn't pay their bills, _________ least had the money to pay them
Choose the right preposition: The frog pool was square – fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Lush soft grass grew about its edge and a little ditch brought the water from the river to it and from it little ditches went out _________ the orchards. There were frogs there all right, thousands of them
Choose the right preposition: The girls slipped out the back door, and sometimes staying with the sleeping children the girls dropped to sleep in their chairs. They didn't use makeup _________ work any more
Choose the right preposition: The girls tried to keep up their business but they went _________ shifts to sit with the families, and they carried pots of soup when they went
Choose the right preposition: The men from the sardine fleet, loaded with dough, were in and out all afternoon. They sail _________ dark and fish all night so they must play in the afternoon
Choose the right preposition: The men of the fishing fleet and the soldiers stood in line. And the girls did their work and then they took their pots of soup and went to sit _________ the Ransels, with the McCarthys, with the Ferrias
Choose the right preposition: The others looked at Mack. Mack was frowning as though he was thinking it through. "When we're out doin' scientific stuff, we make it a kind of a rule not to touch nothin'," he said, and then quickly as though he might have gone too far, "But seein' as how you been so nice _________ us – well I wouldn't mind a short one myself. I don't know about the boys."
Choose the right preposition: The rules of the game require the frog to wait until the final flicker of a second, when the net is descending, when the lance is in the air, when the finger squeezes the trigger, then the frog jumps, plops into the water, swims _________ the bottom and waits until the man goes away. That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done
Choose the right preposition: Their voices beat the night, they boomed and barked and croaked and rattled. They sang _________ the stars, to the waning moon, to the waving grasses
Choose the right preposition: Then into the pool plunged the line of men, stamping, churning, moving _________ a crazy line up the pool, flinging their feet about
Choose the right preposition: There wasn't a house that hadn't feverish children and sick parents. It was not a deadly disease as it was _________ 1917 but with children it had a tendency to go into the mastoids
Choose the right preposition: They bellowed love songs and challenges. The men crept through the darkness toward the pool. The captain carried a nearly filled pitcher _________ whiskey and every man had his own glass
Choose the right preposition: They didn't have to. Dora herself said she could have used the total membership _________the old ladies' home
Choose the right preposition: They weren't counted but there must have been six or seven hundred. Then happily Mack tied up the necks of the sacks. They were soaking, dripping wet and the air was cool. They had a short one _________ the grass before they went back to the house so they wouldn't catch cold.
Choose the right preposition: Two men gathered them like berries. The line came out of the water and closed _________ on their rear and gathered them like potatoes
Choose the right preposition: Very few people are about, just enough to make it seem more deserted than it is. One of Dora's girls comes home _________ a call on a patron too wealthy or too sick to visit the Bear Flag. Her makeup is a little sticky and her feet are tired
Choose the right preposition: When a case got really out of hand he phoned a local doctor and sometimes one came if it seemed to be an emergency. But to the families it was all emergency. Doc didn't get much sleep. He lived _________ beer and canned sardines. In Lee Chong's where he went to get beer he met Dora who was there to buy a pair of nail clippers
Choose the right preposition: _________ the evening the soldiers of the new regiment came down and stood around playing the juke box and drinking Coca-Cola and sizing up the girls for the time when they would be paid
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Put the verb in brackets in the right form: "Just you rest easy, Doc. Don't you lose no sleep about it. You'll get your frogs, maybe seven eight hundred." He put the Doc at his ease about frogs and then a little cloud crossed Mack's face. "Doc." he said, "any chance of (to use) your car to go up the Valley?"
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A delicacy about the license plates and the lights made Gay (to choose) back streets
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And such a one was Gay. His fingers on a timer or a carburetor adjustment screw were gentle and wise and sure. He (can) fix the delicate electric motors in the laboratory
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And the reverse was not (to wear)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And then his face fell a little further. "Doc," he said, "on a business deal like this, would you advance two or three bucks for gasoline? I know Lee Chong won't (to give) us gas." "No," said Doc. He had fallen into this before. Once he had financed Gay to go for turtles
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And they very nearly made it. The radiator boiled, of course, but most Model T experts believed that it wasn't (to work) well if it wasn't boiling
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: City hunters (to go) out for sport load themselves with food and liquor, but not Mack
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Doc went to the labeling desk and wrote a note to Red Williams at the gas station, (to authorize) the issue of ten gallons of gasoline to Mack. "Here you are," he said
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For there are men who (can) look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works. Indeed there are men near whom a car runs better
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Good," said Doc. "I'll take all you (to get) but I need about three hundred."
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He knew it wouldn't (to work), the band was worn too thin
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He used it for five years and sold it to an insurance man (to name) Rattle
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was a pedal rider too and the bands had to be (to change) often
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: His name was Francis Almones and he had a sad life, for he always made just a fraction less than he (to need) to live
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mack wasted no time in sparring. "Lee," he said, "Doc over there's got a problem. He's got a big order for frogs from the New York Museum. (to mean) a lot to Doc. Besides the dough there's a lot of credit getting an order like that.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mrs. Lee was (to cut) bacon on the big butcher's block. A Lee cousin primped up slightly wilted heads of lettuce the way a girl primps a loose finger wave. A cat lay asleep on a big pile of oranges. Lee Chong stood in his usual place back of the cigar counter and in front of the liquor shelves. His tapping finger on the change mat speeded up a little when Mack came in.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Probably any one of the boys from the Palace Flophouse could (to have) made the truck run, for they were all competent practical mechanics, but Gay was an inspired mechanic
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The doctor himself had to stand the expense of the leaden box which went into the coffin of Josh Billings. For Monterey was not a town to let dishonor (to come) to a literary man.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The equipment of the expedition (to be) slight: some long-handled frog nets and some gunny sacks
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The fenders (to be) broken and bent
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The men in the bar were silent. And the same thought went through all their minds. Josh Billings was a great man, a great writer. He had (to honor) Monterey by dying there and he had been degraded.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There (to be) no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There Mr. Carriaga told his story again and he had just finished when the constable came into the Adobe. He should know if anyone (to have) died. "No one died in Monterey," he said. "But Josh Billings died out at the Hotel del Monte."
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There would be the time when they would (to go) up Carmel Hill and down into the Valley, a good four miles on a main highway, exposed to any passing cop until they turned up the fairly unfrequented Carmel Valley road
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They made him (to dress) quickly then and they hurried down to the beach. If the little boy had gone quickly about his business, it would have been too late. He was just getting into a boat when the committee arrived.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: This staggered Mack for a moment but he recovered. He spread the order for gasoline on the cigar counter. "Look!" he said. "Doc needs them frogs. He give me this order for gas to get them. I can't let Doc down. Now Gay is a good mechanic. If he fixes your truck and (to put) it in good shape, will you let us take it?"
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Two loaves of bread and what was left of Eddie's wining jug (to be) all the supply
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When Mr. Rattle embezzled a client's money and ran away to San Jose, he was (to catch) with a high-hair blonde and sent up within ten days
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: With all their alacrity, it was afternoon when they got (to start)