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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens at the end of the season?
(a) Norman runs into Jim in town.
(b) Norman gets married.
(c) Norman and Jim go fishing together.
(d) Norman takes a well-deserved vacation.

2. What does Jim brag about over dinner one night?
(a) His house
(b) His girls
(c) His physical strength
(d) His new car

3. How do the two men eventually work together?
(a) In silence
(b) As strangers
(c) As longtime partners
(d) As little as possible

4. Why does Norman agree to gyppo instead of work for wages?
(a) He thinks he can make more money that way.
(b) He has an entrepreneurial streak.
(c) He has never tried it before.
(d) He enjoys working outside.

5. What is gyppoing?
(a) A very delicate and finely balanced type of circus act
(b) An intricate method of cutting designs into paper
(c) A method of applying lacquer to wood finishes
(d) A method of logging where payment is made by the number of board feet cut per day

6. What does Jim enjoy doing at the camp?
(a) Playing cards
(b) Causing trouble
(c) Writing letters
(d) Singing camp songs

7. What does Jim force Norman to do?
(a) Pay his rent
(b) Chug mugs of beer
(c) Loan him money
(d) Listen to his pimping stories

8. What does Norman do to revive himself?
(a) Has a few beers
(b) Bathes in the river
(c) Jogs a couple miles
(d) Cooks a good meal

9. How does Jim abuse men?
(a) He picks fights.
(b) He hits them on the jaw.
(c) He flirts with their wives.
(d) He engages in power struggles all the time.

10. What does Jim invite Norman to do?
(a) Go out for a couple beers
(b) Have dinner at Norman's home
(c) Go to a ballgame
(d) Take a road trip

11. What does Norman feel Jim is doing all summer?
(a) Waging an undeclared war
(b) Improving his reading skills
(c) Trying to improve his social standing
(d) Working on his upper body strength

12. Why does Norman accept the invitation?
(a) Because he is curious about Jim's house
(b) Because his mother tells him to do it
(c) Because he does not have anything better to do
(d) Out of politeness

13. Why does this affair especially anger Norman?
(a) Norman had wanted to date the woman.
(b) The woman is a friend of Norman's family.
(c) Jim flaunts his affair to the men in camp.
(d) The woman is half Jim's age.

14. What does Jim complain to the cooks about?
(a) That they do not serve pie for breakfast
(b) That they always burn the stew
(c) That they never have pork.
(d) That the portions are not big enough

15. How does Norman end each day?
(a) Sick with exhaustion
(b) Preparing for the next day
(c) Ready for a couple beers
(d) Wishing it were Friday

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim's communications are filled with _________________.

2. Which men does Jim especially pick on in camp?

3. Why does Jim gravitate toward Norman?

4. What does Norman think of this last bit of information?

5. What does Norman think gyppoing would do for him?

(see the answer keys)

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