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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. Pale begins to talk about his friend _______ who is a bartender, though Anna is not interested in this topic.
(a) Andy.
(b) Tony.
(c) Ray.
(d) Roger.

2. Larry tells Anna he can not keep from thinking about what happened to ______________.
(a) Jessie.
(b) Burton.
(c) Pale.
(d) Robbie.

3. Larry said that the card that his bosses have in mind will only offend _____________, which he means to say in a sarcastic way.
(a) Dancers.
(b) Children.
(c) Beggars.
(d) Homosexuals.

4. Where was the wake Anna attended for Robbie's death with Robbie's family?
(a) Minneapolis.
(b) Canada.
(c) Houston.
(d) Chicago.

5. Pale comes in the door, ranting about how anyone can live in the ____________.
(a) City.
(b) Building.
(c) Country.
(d) Subway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anna decides it is far too early to go to _______________ and Larry agrees with her.

2. What is the look that Anna ascribes to the men in Robbie's family, though they all sort of look like him, too?

3. What is the relationship that Robbie and Anna once shared when he was alive?

4. What does the Flying Dutchman's love do which breaks the curse imposed upon him?

5. On this card, there can not be anything _____________ as not everyone celebrates Christmas in the same way.

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Pale, why does he hate messages and small pieces of paper?

2. Why does Anna have to stay in the house of Robbie's family after the wake?

3. When Pale meets Larry, he says that he does not remember seeing Larry at the wake. What does Larry respond?

4. What does Larry admit Anna has been working on when Burton asks Larry about her relationship with Pale?

5. What are some of the things that Larry reveals he was told not to put on the Chrysler Christmas card he is designing?

6. What does Anna reveal about Pale's ideas about what happened to Robbie and to Dominic?

7. What does Burton have to say in response to Pale's comment/question about whether she is sleeping with Burton, too?

8. What were the main focuses of Robbie, according to Anna when she is talking with Larry?

9. What is the one thing that Robbie's family has never seen him do, which also upsets Anna?

10. What does Anna say when Burton asks her if she will ever move out of the loft and into his place?

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