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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first class action lawsuit Carl sees in the newspaper?
(a) Spoiled meat served in restaurants
(b) Beer that causes blindness
(c) Televisions that explode
(d) Spiders hatching out of furniture

2. What does Carl say when Mona asks when he last "got laid?"
(a) He says it was a week ago
(b) He doesn't answer
(c) He says he doesn't remember
(d) He says it was twenty years earlier

3. What is the first thing Henderson says to Carl when Carl returns to the office?
(a) That everyone is looking for the culling song
(b) Did he call the airlines about crab lice
(c) That Carl now reports to Henderson
(d) That Duncan is dead

4. Where does it seem the baby's cries are coming from?
(a) In the room that was a nursery
(b) Under the house
(c) In the attic
(d) In a wall of the master bedroom

5. Where is Henderson when Carl gets back to work?
(a) He hasn't arrived
(b) He's in the art department
(c) He's at his desk
(d) He's at Carl's desk

6. Who is Helen talking to when she meets Carl Streator for the first time?
(a) Her mother
(b) Mona
(c) Oyster
(d) The previous owners of the house

7. What are among the possible causes cited in the newspaper article?
(a) Poison gases
(b) The culling song
(c) Heart attacks
(d) Plague or drugs

8. What does Nash set fire to in the bar?
(a) A napkin
(b) A paper plate
(c) A book of napkins
(d) His notes

9. What is the difference between night witches and day witches?
(a) Day witches nurture and night witches are evil
(b) Day witches draw power from the sun and night witches from the moon
(c) Day witches cannot cast spells at night and night witches cannot cast in the daylight
(d) Day witches aren't afraid of sunlight and night witches are

10. Who is paging Carl while he's talking to Helen?
(a) Duncan
(b) Nash
(c) Mona
(d) Oyster

11. What is the image the owners usually see reflected in the water in the tub?
(a) A wrinkled face
(b) A baby
(c) A pig
(d) The Grim Reaper

12. What page is the book "Poems and Rhymes" open to in two of the homes where there was a crib death?
(a) Page 82
(b) Page 321
(c) Page 148
(d) Page 27

13. Where is the baby sitter when Carl goes to cover his second crib death story?
(a) Outside
(b) In the ambulance
(c) In the bedroom
(d) At the hospital

14. What does Carl discover after saying the culling poem in the shower?
(a) That everyone has turned off their televisions and music
(b) That it's suddenly silent in the rest of the building
(c) That there's a vent that carries sound to other apartments
(d) That he was probably heard in the apartment next door

15. What does Carl say is the problem with every story?
(a) There are too many stories to tell them all
(b) There's never enough time to entertain the reader
(c) You can't be sure what's the truth
(d) You tell it after the fact

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the apron worn by the woman in the kitchen?

2. What is it that's hanging around Oyster's neck?

3. What is the newscast that Helen hears that she encourages the others to listen to?

4. What is the topic of the song that Carl reads to Duncan?

5. What is the grade Carl receives on his ethics

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