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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. Where does the narrator get his mail from?
(a) The mailbox.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The fire.
(d) The supermarket.

2. How does the narrator think that John Young begins his affairs?
(a) By performing abortions for women.
(b) By implanting a miniature baby in his girlfriends.
(c) By treating women in the hospital.
(d) By taking a nurse out to dinner.

3. When does Hamilton de Souza cease to talk, in the narrator's experience?
(a) When he sails for Europe.
(b) When he meets with Father Duryea in the Vatican.
(c) When he takes the name Hamilton de Souza.
(d) When he sails for Salerno, Italy.

4. What does the narrator describe as an "atrocity-producing" situation?
(a) The city.
(b) The possibility of nuclear war.
(c) The hospital.
(d) JFK's hero's welcome in Dallas.

5. Where does Odilo Unverdorben pass through on his way south at the end of the war?
(a) Salerno.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) Rome.
(d) Bologna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which war does Tod Friendly protest?

2. Where would John Young have his amorous encounters with women?

3. What happens to Tod Friendly's body over time?

4. Where does the taxi cab take John Young after his night of drinking?

5. Where does Hamilton de Souza keep his gold when he travels to Salerno, Italy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the terms the narrator coins in order to make things make sense?

2. Is there any place where the narrator's understanding is more accurate than Tod Friendly's?

3. What habits does Tod Friendly pick up over the course of the first chapter?

4. What is the narrator's relationship with Irene?

5. Describe Reverend Nicholas Kreditor's appearance.

6. How does John Young's relationship with Irene progress?

7. Describe how the narrator experiences driving.

8. How does John Young/Hamilton de Souza feel about his body?

9. How does the narrator feel about the change from America to Europe?

10. Does Tod Friendly/John Young seem to be a good person?

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