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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Slump not know?
(a) He is being demoted.
(b) He is to be promoted.
(c) He is in danger of losing his job.
(d) His secretary has been fired.

2. What does Sir Ambrose urge Dennis to do?
(a) Get a new job.
(b) Find a new girlfriend.
(c) Go back to England.
(d) Kill himself.

3. Who is Sambo?
(a) A dog.
(b) A snake.
(c) A cat.
(d) A parrot.

4. What does Dennis tell Mr. Schultz?
(a) He is thinking of getting married.
(b) He is thinking of moving back to England.
(c) He is getting a job with the studio.
(d) He is getting a job at the human mortuary.

5. Why does Dennis propose marriage?
(a) He is being pressured by his aunt.
(b) He loves Aimée.
(c) Because Aimée's promotion will enable her to take care of him.
(d) He is being pressured by Sir Ambrose.

6. What does Mr. Joyboy say Dennis must do?
(a) Help Mr. Joyboy figure out what to do.
(b) Pray to God for forgiveness.
(c) Take the job in the other city.
(d) Give Mr. Joyboy Dennis' word that he will leave Aimée alone.

7. Of what does Dennis remind Aimée?
(a) That she once loved him.
(b) That she is an honorable woman.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That she promised to marry him.

8. What is Mr. Slump's mental state?
(a) Mildly amused.
(b) Scarcely sober.
(c) Exuberant.
(d) Excited.

9. How has Aimée's "friend" at work become?
(a) Morose and mean.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Excited about another one of the cosmeticians.
(d) Very supportive of Aimée's engagement.

10. In what does Dennis seem unnaturally interested?
(a) A young lady in the coffee shop.
(b) Religion.
(c) The details of Aimée's work.
(d) Aimée's sister.

11. What does Mr. Joyboy ask Aimée?
(a) If her fiancee is a professor.
(b) If her fiancee has a sister with red hair.
(c) If her fiancee works at the studio.
(d) If her fiancee is an Englishman.

12. How is Guru Brahmin produced?
(a) By rotating reporters.
(b) One man writes the column and the other responds to personal letters.
(c) By whoever is not busy in the news room.
(d) Haphazardly.

13. What does Mr. Joyboy tell Dennis?
(a) Mr. Joyboy has a job opening in a new city for Dennis if Dennis will go.
(b) Aimée is ill.
(c) Aimée has killed herself.
(d) Mr. Joyboy is suing Dennis.

14. What does Aimée occasionally think of a poem?
(a) It is risque.
(b) It is too complex to understand.
(c) It is too long.
(d) It has bad grammar.

15. What does Aimée ask a columnist?
(a) If her horoscope means she will die young.
(b) If she might be in love with Dennis.
(c) If her horoscope means she will never marry.
(d) If she might be in love with Mr. Joyboy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aimée tell Mr. Joyboy when he wants to celebrate with her?

2. Why does Dennis say he should be offended by Aimée?

3. What does Sir Ambrose give Dennis before Sir Ambrose leaves?

4. How long have Aimée and Dennis been engaged?

5. What poem is used at the Heart of the Bruce?

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