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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the train onto which the men are loaded?
(a) The B&O Railroad.
(b) The Widow Maker.
(c) The Georgia Peach.
(d) The Juggernaut.

2. How did the narrator pay for college expenses?
(a) Bank student loans.
(b) Trust fund.
(c) Scholarships.
(d) GI Bill.

3. What is the name of first-year campers at the narrator's childhood summer camp?
(a) Does.
(b) Bunnies.
(c) Tenderfoots.
(d) Chipmunks.

4. According to the narrator, behind all the gaudiness of New Jersey lies ____________________.
(a) More gaudiness.
(b) People struggling to survive.
(c) A human striving for something grand.
(d) Endless subdivisions.

5. Who is the scholarly one in the narrator's dorm?
(a) Dagellio.
(b) Goldberg.
(c) Umbaugh.
(d) Morrison.

6. What did each boy bet in the contest?
(a) $5.
(b) $50.
(c) $20.
(d) $100.

7. What food does the narrator dish out when he is working on the train?
(a) Gravy.
(b) Meat loaf.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Beans.

8. What did Marcel Proust do to soundproof his environment?
(a) Put cotton in his ears.
(b) Worked in a cork-lined room.
(c) Wore ear muffs.
(d) Worked in a bank vault.

9. What was the narrator's army radar company?
(a) Company A.
(b) Company K.
(c) Company B.
(d) Company F.

10. What does the narrator say is always the butt of comedians' jokes?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Martha Stewart.
(c) The President.
(d) Donald Trump.

11. How can the narrator best be described in comparison to his camp mates?
(a) A fraud.
(b) An everyman.
(c) An intellectual.
(d) A bully.

12. What New Jersey food did the narrator eat while in Colorado?
(a) Hot dogs.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Steaks.

13. Who emerges as the ne'er-do-well leader of the Beavers?
(a) Jake.
(b) Buzz.
(c) Will.
(d) Max.

14. On what round of the contest does Big Al collapse?
(a) 3rd.
(b) 7th.
(c) 14th.
(d) 10th.

15. The narrator ruminates that the place he is stranded can ___________________.
(a) be unhealthy.
(b) make men mad.
(c) waste a man's life.
(d) be a great diversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sergeant make Dan Baxter do when he catches Dan smoking?

2. The Nobba-WaWa-Nockee Loyalty Song is sung to the tune of what other song?

3. What does the narrator say ruined a high class New Jersey party?

4. What type of boat do the campers get to try?

5. What is the culminating event of the summer at camp?

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