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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. Who was the ma who was rumored to make it to the top of Mount Ararat?
(a) Dr. Paul Pigeon.
(b) Dr. David Dove.
(c) Dr. Friedrich Parrot.
(d) Dr. Martin Raven.

2. Where is the narrator when he writes "Parenthesis"?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Illinois.

3. How old was James Bartley when he was swallowed by a whale?
(a) 51.
(b) 35.
(c) 29.
(d) 42.

4. How much did the government of Cuba want to charge the passengers of the St. Louis to disembark?
(a) $394,500.
(b) $518,000.
(c) $259,000.
(d) $453,500.

5. What language did the priest speak that the Kurd led Miss Logan to after they climbed down Mount Ararat?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Turkish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the captain of the expedition to Senegal?

2. How much did the ox heart weigh that the narrator bought at Corrigans weigh?

3. Who wrote, "We must love one another or die"?

4. What does Lawrence's daughter feed him?

5. How much older was Miss Logan than Amanda?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about the way the couple sleeps in "Parenthesis"?

2. What does the eighteen-year-old expect when he takes a job as a prep-school master?

3. How did the Armenian priest defend himself when Amanda doubted that the amulet he offered to sell was from the ark?

4. What does the the narrator wish to celebrate instead of 1492 and why?

5. What does Charlie learn about the words one of the Indians has been teaching him?

6. How is the woman's sleep sometimes broken and how does this affect the man in "Parenthesis"?

7. How were the survivors on the raft finally rescued?

8. What did Colonel Fergusson take Amanda to see in 1821?

9. What effects did James Bartley suffer from being swallowed by a whale?

10. In Section II of Chapter 5, how is catastrophe turned into art?

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