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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