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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 many thousands of dollars does Holly demand from Chet during their meeting on December 18?
(a) 100.
(b) 250.
(c) 300.
(d) 500.

2. Albie told his grandson Chuck that he had "only been up to that damn cupola" (134) how many times in total?
(a) 6.
(b) 24.
(c) 3.
(d) 9.

3. How old was Chuck when his grandfather Albie died of a heart attack on the front steps of the library?
(a) 17.
(b) 21.
(c) 24.
(d) 15.

4. How long before Chuck "died of a brain tumor" did he tell "his wife the truth about the scar on the back of his hand" (146)?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 6 months.

5. Which person's future death did Chuck foresee when he entered the cupola?
(a) His son's.
(b) His daughter's.
(c) His wife's.
(d) His own.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what poem did Chuck stay after class to talk to the teacher about on the last day of eighth grade?

2. On what object does the narrator of Act I: I Contain Multitudes blame the deaths of Chuck's parents?

3. After Chuck's conversation with his grandmother Sarah about the cupola, he felt what emotion toward the room?

4. How old was Chuck when his grandparents Sarah and Albie took him to Disney World?

5. What name did Chuck use to refer to his grandfather Albie until third grade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Chuck see when he opened the door to the cupola after his grandfather Albie's funeral?

2. For what reason did Chuck transition from one home to another at age seven?

3. What kind of person is Holly's mother and how do you know?

4. At what age did Chuck start calling his grandparents Grandma and Grandpa and why?

5. In what way does the motif of dreams appear within the story entitled "If It Bleeds"?

6. Discuss the ultimate fate of the Outsider featured in the story "If It Bleeds."

7. What happens in the prologue of the story "If It Bleeds" and how does it set the mood of the story?

8. How does the reader learn the way in which Chuck incurred the scar on his hand?

9. Where does Holly arrange to meet the Outsider when he agrees to her demand for $300,000?

10. What did Chuck's grandfather Albie tell him during his childhood about why no one ever entered the cupola in the family home?

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