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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adam say spreads Americans?
(a) Manipulative ads.
(b) The 24-hour news cycle.
(c) Smartphones.
(d) Highways.

2. Who has just left Adam, when his chapter opens?
(a) His father.
(b) Darren.
(c) His mother.
(d) Amber.

3. Where is Darren when the novel begins?
(a) A police station.
(b) The Army Surplus store.
(c) The woods.
(d) A lake.

4. What did Jonathan’s therapist see in Jonathan’s fascination with the Ziegler story?
(a) Revenge fantasies.
(b) Dreams of grandeur.
(c) Projected self-loathing.
(d) Megalomania.

5. Where were Jonathan and his first wife married?
(a) City Hall.
(b) A country club.
(c) In a Catholic church.
(d) On the beach.

6. Where does Jane say her abuse took place?
(a) On a trip.
(b) In a hotel.
(c) On a train.
(d) In her parents’ house.

7. What does Ziegler hear, once he can understand this language?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Endless questions.
(c) The voice of God.
(d) Affection.

8. What was the first instance Jane recalled of watching herself ignore her own knowledge?
(a) Learning that her painted tissue box was a lie.
(b) Reading during her graduate studies, which she did not realize she identified with.
(c) Burying her memory of her father’s abuse.
(d) Neglecting to buy airline tickets.

9. What did Darren believe he was responsible for?
(a) Adam’s concussion.
(b) His ostracism.
(c) His father’s death.
(d) His developmental delays.

10. How did Darren believe he acquired magic powers?
(a) By kissing a girl.
(b) By repeating a chant.
(c) By rubbing poison ivy.
(d) By entering a dark cave.

11. What character in American literature does Jonathan compare his patient/film intern to?
(a) Bartleby.
(b) Hester Prynne.
(c) Leatherstocking.
(d) Billy Budd.

12. Who wrote the story about Ziegler?
(a) Nikolai Gogol.
(b) Italo Calvino.
(c) Hermann Hesse.
(d) Franz Kafka.

13. Where was Sima’s family from?
(a) Iran.
(b) Los Alamos.
(c) India.
(d) Los Angeles.

14. What is Adam’s specialty in debate?
(a) Breadth of knowledge.
(b) Cross examination.
(c) Framing.
(d) Research.

15. Where did Jonathan see contempt coming from, which made him want to leave the Met?
(a) The sculptures.
(b) Jane.
(c) The guards.
(d) The other museum-goers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of gun did Darren have?

2. Where was Adam’s photo with Bob Dole displayed?

3. What issue did the Westboro Baptist Church protest?

4. What was it that moved Jonathan in Duccio’s Madonna and Child?

5. What kind of car does Darren see himself driving?

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