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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator clean out his desk?
(a) He enlists the help of a moving company.
(b) He and Megan separate everything into piles.
(c) He dumps everything into wastebaskets.
(d) He takes everything into Clara's office and dumps it.

2. Where do the narrator and Megan go to eat?
(a) They go to the narrator's apartment.
(b) They go to the Lions Head Pub.
(c) They go to Megan's apartment.
(d) They go to Odeon.

3. Who offers the narrator a reference when he returns to the office?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) The Druid.
(c) Megan Avery.
(d) Clara TIllinhast.

4. What phrase does Wade want on the narrator's epitaph?
(a) Facts wait for no man.
(b) He didn't face facts.
(c) The facts of life.
(d) As a matter of fact.

5. What suspicion does the narrator accidentally give the bartender?
(a) The bartender thinks he is a terrorist.
(b) The bartender thinks he is very ill.
(c) The bartender thinks he is in a gang.
(d) The bartender thinks he is a jewel thief.

6. With whom does the narrator make a lunch date for the next day?
(a) Vicky Hollins.
(b) Megan Avery.
(c) Clara Tillinghast.
(d) The Druid.

7. Upon opening the Post, what does the narrator discover about Coma Baby?
(a) Coma Baby was delivered six weeks premature and the mother is dead.
(b) Coma Baby was experiencing complications and doctors were worried.
(c) Coma Baby was expected to have a safe, normal delivery.
(d) Coma Baby's mother has woken up and everyone is fine.

8. How does the narrator's mother describe the pain she is in?
(a) She likens it to a broken arm.
(b) She likens it to going to the dentist.
(c) She likens it to having a sunburn.
(d) She likens it to the pain she felt during the narrator's birth.

9. How does the narrator feel in his meeting with Clara?
(a) Giddy: he hates this job and wants to quit.
(b) Horrified: he is completely blindsided by their conversation.
(c) Afraid: he does not want Clara doing him bodily harm.
(d) Detached: like a samurai, she cannot hurt him if he has already resolved to die.

10. What relationship of Megan's surprises the narrator?
(a) She has a son.
(b) She is actually married.
(c) She has a daughter.
(d) She lives with her mother.

11. Before implementing his plan, what does the narrator compare himself to?
(a) He compares himself to a terrorist waiting in unsuspecting crowd.
(b) He compares himself to menorah in a Christmas tree shop.
(c) He compares himself to children at family holidays.
(d) He compares himself to a tourist in Times Square.

12. What are the bouncers dressed up as?
(a) Native American medicine men.
(b) Aladdin's genie.
(c) Roman soldiers.
(d) Nubian slaves.

13. Who does the narrator encounter at the club?
(a) Megan.
(b) Amanda.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Michael.

14. What name does the narrator give to the greeter?
(a) Tad Allagash.
(b) John Doe.
(c) Michael Miller.
(d) Amanda White.

15. What drink does the narrator order at the bar?
(a) Gin and tonic.
(b) Vodka on ice.
(c) A margarita.
(d) Whiskey and Coca-Cola.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator offer to trade with the man?

2. What does the narrator give to Megan?

3. What was their mother wearing in Michael's memory?

4. What does the narrator discover in an envelope in his desk?

5. What is the narrator's plan for the fashion show?

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