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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old is Norman when he first meets Jim?
(a) In his early twenties
(b) Thirty
(c) Twenty-seven
(d) Seventeen
2. How does Jim abuse men?
(a) He picks fights.
(b) He hits them on the jaw.
(c) He engages in power struggles all the time.
(d) He flirts with their wives.
3. What does Jim not ask Norman to do?
(a) Date his ex-wife
(b) Go on vacation with him
(c) Lend him money
(d) Be his partner again
4. Jim's stories bore Norman to the point of ___________________.
(a) anger
(b) frustration
(c) tears
(d) hysteria
5. In what area of Montana do Jim and Norman work?
(a) The Blackfoot River area
(b) The Bitterroot River area
(c) The Yellowstone River area
(d) The Missouri River area
6. How does Norman meet Jim Grierson?
(a) They grew up together.
(b) They are pen pals.
(c) They spent a summer logging in the woods on the Blackfoot River.
(d) They are college roommates.
7. To whom does Jim introduce Norman?
(a) His old boss and his wife
(b) Two women who work for Jim
(c) His ex-wife and kids
(d) His mother and father
8. What is the subject of Jim's latest brags?
(a) A deer he had hunted and killed
(b) Jim's conquest of a large woman
(c) A one-month European vacation
(d) A new boat he has bought
9. What is gyppoing?
(a) A very delicate and finely balanced type of circus act
(b) An intricate method of cutting designs into paper
(c) A method of applying lacquer to wood finishes
(d) A method of logging where payment is made by the number of board feet cut per day
10. How does Jim abuse women?
(a) He pimps them out.
(b) He slaps them around.
(c) He verbally abuses them.
(d) He does not pay them what he promises.
11. What does Jim do that Norman finds it difficult to maintain?
(a) Jim trains for a marathon.
(b) Jim does 100 push-ups each morning.
(c) Jim increases the rhythm of their sawing.
(d) Jim increases his vocabulary lessons.
12. What does Jim eventually consider Norman to be?
(a) A friend
(b) A business partner
(c) An enemy
(d) A shrewd poker player
13. Why does Jim gravitate toward Norman?
(a) He has respect for college men.
(b) Norman beat him at arm wrestling.
(c) He knows Norman's family.
(d) He senses someone who can keep up with him.
14. What does Norman think gyppoing would do for him?
(a) Develop his artistic sensibilities
(b) Give him some fine motor skills
(c) Help him earn extra money for graduate school
(d) Build up his upper body strength
15. What does Norman fear about an encounter with Jim?
(a) That Jim could outtalk Norman any day.
(b) That Norman will run away in fear.
(c) That Norman would not win in a fistfight with Jim.
(d) That Jim would challenge Norman to a fight.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Jim never eat at breakfast?
2. Which men does Jim especially pick on in camp?
3. How does Norman feel about Jim at first sight?
4. What does Jim complain to the cooks about?
5. What effect does this work style have on the two men?
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