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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. Anders muses that at the moment, he "has no choice but to" (26) take what action in relation to the work of the artist responsible for painting the ceiling?
(a) Celebrate.
(b) Regard.
(c) Scrutinize.
(d) Examine.

2. Just before the man with the pistol prods Anders with the gun once again, Anders begins "to develop a sense of" (20) what?
(a) Terror.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Unease.

3. What two adjectives are used to describe the smell Anders detects?
(a) Ugly and noxious.
(b) Pleasant and sweet.
(c) Piercing and ammoniac.
(d) Noxious and overwhelming.

4. Anders is said to have noticed the main quality of the figures on the ceiling how long ago?
(a) Many years ago.
(b) Decades ago.
(c) Several months ago.
(d) A few weeks ago.

5. What female figure does Anders reflect upon as he is gazing at the bank ceiling?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Eve.
(c) Europa.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What verb is used to describe the way in which the bullet travels through Anders's brain?

2. The memory that emerges within Anders's conscious mind takes place in what season?

3. Once inside the brain, the bullet is said to come "under the mediation of" what kind of "time" (35)?

4. What consequence does the man with the pistol say he will dole out if Anders takes a certain action?

5. Anders believes that the creator of the bank's ceiling mural had performed his task with "the utmost" (26) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what question does Anders answer, "No" in Paragraph 20 before he fights to maintain decorum?

2. What is Anders's reply to the question he is asked the third time he is called "Bright boy" (27)?

3. How many years ago had the event at the center of Anders's one witnessed memory taken place?

4. In what way does Anders react to the man with the pistol's use of 1940s slang and what is the end result?

5. What is ironic about the mural artist's portrayal of the story of Zeus and Europa?

6. What specific reaction does Anders have to his vision of a cartoon bubble and how do you know?

7. What event causes Anders to imagine a cartoon bubble and what does it say?

8. Wolff compares the speeds of what two objects within Paragraph 35?

9. Where are the entrance and exit wounds inflicted by the bullet to Anders's head?

10. What event happens to force Anders to examine the domed ceiling of the bank?

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