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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did the government of Cuba want to charge the passengers of the St. Louis to disembark?
(a) $394,500.
(b) $259,000.
(c) $518,000.
(d) $453,500.

2. Where is the narrator when he writes "Parenthesis"?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Illinois.

3. What is Matt's last name?
(a) Brown.
(b) Smythe.
(c) Smoton.
(d) Smeaton.

4. How long did it take Gericault to paint his painting?
(a) 13 months.
(b) 17 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 8 months.

5. What time of day was it when Colonel Fergusson's listened to the incessant ticking of a beetle?
(a) Noon.
(b) Midnight.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 2 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Gericault's painting?

2. How many people refused to leave the frigate and transfer to the raft?

3. How far from home is the narrator's job in Part I of Chapters 7?

4. How many people lived in the town that Jonah went to preach to according to Barnes?

5. How long have Charlie and Pippa been together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the thoughts of the fifteen who remained on the raft when they saw a butterfly?

2. Describe the expedition to Senegal.

3. Who finally agreed to take passengers from the St. Louis?

4. What is the storyline based upon of the movie Charlie is acting in?

5. What effects did James Bartley suffer from being swallowed by a whale?

6. How is the woman's sleep sometimes broken and how does this affect the man in "Parenthesis"?

7. How would science explain the halo of cloud that appears around Mount Ararat?

8. Where should the words "I love you," be kept and why?

9. What did Amanda say about the practice of placing teeth in a crevice of the door of a church?

10. Where was Arghuri and why did Amanda wish to go there?

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