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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. What does Commissioner Gordon do to communicate with Batman?
(a) Sends an email.
(b) Lights the bat signal.
(c) Goes to Wayne Manor.
(d) Calls him.

2. Which character said, "We must believe our private demons can be defeated..."?
(a) Robin.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Commissioner Gordon.
(d) Bruce Wayne.

3. After leaving the home of an old friend, Bruce Wayne walks around Gotham City and thinks about what?
(a) Robin.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Batman.
(d) Selina Kyle.

4. In the pursuit of the bank robbers, what does Batman say he needs to climb the rope?
(a) His intellect.
(b) His arms.
(c) His legs.
(d) His strength.

5. Why doesn't Batman kill the Mutant leader when he has a clear shot of him?
(a) He is distracted by Robin.
(b) He is scared.
(c) He doesn't believe in killing others.
(d) Another Mutants gang member gets in the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Batman find on one of the bank robbers?

2. What does Commissioner Gordon do to his stalker?

3. What does the criminal who tapped into the television station's antenna want from the viewing public?

4. According to Batman, how long does it take a person to fall from Gotham City's twin towers?

5. According to the news reports, two abducted children were later found in what location?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bruce Wayne means when he tells the news reporter, "We must believe that our private demons can be defeated..."?

2. Why does the author give a lot of detail on Margaret Corcoran only to have the Mutants blow her up at the end of the paneled section?

3. When Batman confronts Harvey Dent, what does he mean when he thinks "...the scars go deep--too deep"?

4. How does Batman's nostalgia about Robin serve as foreshadowing for his battle with the Mutants' leader?

5. In what ways are the soaring high temperatures symbolic of the violence in Gotham City?

6. How is the demon metaphor for Batman further promoted during Bruce Wayne's sleepwalking and flashback scene?

7. How is Carrie Kelley a perfect Robin for Bruce Wayne's elderly Batman?

8. What is the significance of Bruce Wayne's sleepwalking flashback to the bat cave?

9. In Crime Alley during the Mutants' attempted mugging, Bruce Wayne believes the new criminals are a "purer breed" of the man who murdered his parents. What does this mean?

10. How does Lana Lang's words, "We live in the shadow of crime, Ted, with the unspoken understanding that we are victims--of fear, of violence, of social impotence..." equate to Batman's beliefs?

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