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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the caretaker admit that he will not take the Main Character and the Girlfriend any further up the mountain road?
(a) He has been paid to stop here.
(b) He has been threatened if he takes them any further.
(c) He has run out of gas.
(d) He believes it is unlucky.

2. What does the visitor to the villa tell the Main Character to do before leaving the next day?
(a) Copy down the data in the book.
(b) Unplug all the appliances.
(c) Collect all the sheep wool he can.
(d) Set the grandfather clock.

3. Who is buried in the garage?
(a) The Rat.
(b) The Sheep.
(c) The Girlfriend.
(d) The Sheep Man.

4. Whom is the Kipper referred to in the name of Chapter 24?
(a) The Main Character's cat.
(b) A famous character from a novel.
(c) A cat the Girlfriend had as a child.
(d) A childhood friend of the Main Character.

5. What is the person who picks up the cat amazed to discover?
(a) It has no tail.
(b) It has only one eye.
(c) It has no name.
(d) It has a star on its belly.

6. What does the Main Character find on the mountain road that tells him someone else has been there recently?
(a) A hat.
(b) A cigarette butt.
(c) Footprints.
(d) Tire marks.

7. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discuss after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?
(a) The downfalls of naming a child.
(b) God's inefficiencies.
(c) The Girlfriend's ears.
(d) Time saved by their mode of transportation.

8. What fantasy does the man have as he is cooking dinner in Chapter 35?
(a) He imagines getting on a train.
(b) He imagines owning a restaurant.
(c) He imagines marrying the Girlfriend.
(d) He imagines cooking dinner for the Rat.

9. Where does the visitor to the villa tell the Main Character that the Rat is located?
(a) At the Dolphin Hotel.
(b) In the garage.
(c) He says the Rat is dead.
(d) He says he does not know.

10. What does the mirror reveal about the Sheep Man?
(a) His relationship with the Boss.
(b) He has no reflection.
(c) His appearance underneath the sheep costume.
(d) His true intentions.

11. What do the Main Character, the Girlfriend and the person who comes to pick up the cat discuss early in Chapter 24?
(a) The advertising business.
(b) Messages from God.
(c) The superiority of animals over humans.
(d) The starred sheep.

12. What does the caretaker at the ranch tell the Main Character that he must do to the sheep on the day of his visit?
(a) Disinfect them.
(b) Shear them.
(c) Brand them.
(d) Read to them.

13. What does the Main Character discover at the unlucky bend in the road?
(a) The road is now paved.
(b) The road is impassable.
(c) A brand new jeep.
(d) An old red truck.

14. Whom does the Main Character get to agree to pickup himself and the Girlfriend at 8:00 the next morning in Chapter 31?
(a) A mountain guide.
(b) The caretaker.
(c) The caretaker's son.
(d) The livestock inspector.

15. Where does the couple first take a train to in Chapter 29?
(a) Honshukido.
(b) Wakkanai.
(c) Asahikawa.
(d) Shimonoseki.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else does the Sheep Professor say has been looking for the Sheep?

2. What does the Main Character do on the seventh day of the trip to help locate the Rat?

3. What does the Main Character find in the Pan-Asian book in the villa?

4. Who does the caretaker say is living in the home on the sheep ranch that the Main Character visits in Chapter 30?

5. Who is the Sheep Professor?

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