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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 distinguishes Babette from Jack's other wives?
(a) She does not cook.
(b) She does not keep secrets.
(c) She does not have any children.
(d) She is an orphan.

2. What is Babette's father's name?
(a) Vernon Dickerson
(b) Vernon Dickey
(c) Dick Grayson
(d) Dick Vernon

3. What is the name of Jack's oldest daughter?
(a) Dana.
(b) Steffie.
(c) Mary Alice.
(d) Denise.

4. How did Babette get her hands on Dylar?
(a) She stole it from the pharmacy.
(b) She bought it on her credit card.
(c) She slept with someone for it.
(d) She traded Wilder's toys for it.

5. To whom does this description apply: "people who look lost among the dazzling hedgerows" of the supermarket?
(a) The eldery.
(b) Supermarket employees.
(c) Very short people.
(d) The Gladney family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is teaching a seminar about car crashes?

2. According to Denise, what does the neighborhood family think their new dog "is"?

3. Who/what calls the event a "feathery plume"?

4. Which member of the family notices that they are running out of gas?

5. What kind of dessert does the family eat when they go to the fast food restaurant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Orest's quest to break the world record? What happens when he tries to do it?

2. Why does Jack follow Winnie Richards in Chapter 25? Are his reasons valid?

3. Where does Jack drive Willie Mink and why?

4. How did the mock evacuation in Chapter 28 turn out?

5. What causes the family to evacuate, eventually? What is the thing that convinces them?

6. According to Heinrich, toxic spills are not "the real issue." What does he tell his sisters and parents they should be worried of?

7. What is the (potentially wrong) answer Denise gives Babette when Babette wonders why UFOs always come from upstate?

8. As Jack is going faithfully to his German lessons, what is he is practicing?

9. When Murray and Jack discuss the weird feelings they have about Howard, what are some of the things they mention that just do not feel right?

10. What is Orest Mercator trying to do?

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