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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What else does Jim gloat about?
(a) The vacation he is going to take
(b) How beautiful his ex-wife is
(c) How much money he made this year
(d) Logging and the work he hopes to do next summer

4. What does Norman think of this last bit of information?
(a) Jim must be lying again.
(b) Jim's ego is very small to continually behave this way.
(c) Jim has finally found something which got the better of him.
(d) Jim needs to include some pictures for Norman to believe it.

5. What does Jim do during the winter months?
(a) Pimps prostitutes
(b) Takes college classes
(c) Teaches at a trade school
(d) Takes a vacation

6. How does Norman meet Jim Grierson?
(a) They grew up together.
(b) They are pen pals.
(c) They are college roommates.
(d) They spent a summer logging in the woods on the Blackfoot River.

7. How does Norman try to avoid altercations with Jim?
(a) He keeps a cool head.
(b) He works on alternate days.
(c) He tries to stay out of his way.
(d) He does not speak to Jim.

8. With whom does Jim have an affair?
(a) A highly respected local woman
(b) His ex-wife
(c) Someone he met in a bar
(d) An old flame

9. How does Norman feel when the communications from Jim stop coming?
(a) Happy
(b) Angry
(c) Sad
(d) Relieved

10. What does Norman fear about an encounter with Jim?
(a) That Jim could outtalk Norman any day.
(b) That Jim would challenge Norman to a fight.
(c) That Norman would not win in a fistfight with Jim.
(d) That Norman will run away in fear.

11. What does Norman take away from his experience with Jim?
(a) How to avoid competition in personal relationships
(b) How to split a log
(c) How to cook Shrimp Scampi
(d) How to be a good pimp

12. What does Norman not suggest to Jim?
(a) That they join a bowling team
(b) That they go to a movie
(c) That they become partners again
(d) That they invest in real estate

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) The woman is half Jim's age.
(d) Jim flaunts his affair to the men in camp.

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

15. What is the subject of Jim's latest brags?
(a) Jim's conquest of a large woman
(b) A deer he had hunted and killed
(c) A one-month European vacation
(d) A new boat he has bought

Short Answer Questions

1. Why kind of personality does Jim have?

2. What does Jim force Norman to do?

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

4. How old is Norman when he first meets Jim?

5. Why is Norman always determined to stay up with Jim's pace?

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