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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. Why is the narrator visiting Dundun in Story 4?
(a) To buy marijuana.
(b) To spend time with him.
(c) To appologize to him.
(d) To buy pharmaceutical opium.

2. All of the following people are inside the farmhouse in Story 4, except for who?
(a) McInnes.
(b) Blue.
(c) Richard.
(d) Jack Hotel.

3. What is Jack Hotels's real name?
(a) George Hoddel.
(b) Joshua Hughston.
(c) Harry Jacobson.
(d) Jack Hamilton.

4. The narrator states in Story 1 that by the sweet voices of the family inside the car, he knew ________.
(a) They would take good care of the narrator.
(b) They would have an accident.
(c) That they had young children.
(d) That they were friendly.

5. Who asks the narrator to take McInnes to the hospital?
(a) McInnes.
(b) Beatle.
(c) Dundun.
(d) Jack Hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Wayne take the narrator in Story 5?

2. What does the narrator find inside his car in Story 2?

3. In Story 1, who runs a furniture store?

4. In Story 2, who is the woman at the narrator's "new companion's" home referring to when she says, "If you don't take him off our street I'm calling the police"?

5. Where does Dundun live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of Dundun.

2. Analyze the family who picks up the hitchhiking narrator in Story 1. What are some characteristics of this family?

3. How does the narrator and Dundun deal with the death of McInnes?

4. Discuss the mini-theme of the manifestation of nature a seen in Story 1.

5. Discuss comical irony which is found in Story 2.

6. The most telling image is the one quoted in Story 1 that of the narrator being showered with human blood. What does being "showered with human blood" represent?

7. Who is Wayne? Describe his relationship with the narrator in Story 5.

8. Who encourages the narrator of Story 5 to work with him? What type of work do they perform? Explain.

9. Define the literary term of tone. What is the tone of Story 1?

10. Show how and when the narrator's violent side is exposed in Story 2.

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