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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend eat after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?
(a) They do not eat. They drink beer.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) A snack of peanuts and pretzels.
(d) Lunch.

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

3. Who is the Sheep Professor?
(a) A retired professor who live above the bookstore.
(b) The father of the owner of the Dolphin Hotel.
(c) A retired professor who owns the bookstore.
(d) The father of the owner of the Ovine Theater.

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

5. Who do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discover is waiting when they arrive at the villa on the mountain?
(a) The Rat.
(b) No one.
(c) An older woman.
(d) The Business Partner.

6. What strategy do the Girlfriend and the Main Character come up with for hunting the sheep?
(a) She will interview locals and he will research sheep.
(b) She will get maps of the area and he talk to sheep owners.
(c) She will research sheep and he will locate the area of the photo.
(d) She will locate the area of the photo and he will talk to business owners.

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

8. How does the person who picks up the cat feel about caring for the cat?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) Mildly annoyed.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Genuinely pleased.

9. What does the person who speaks to the Main Character in the darkness in Chapter 38 tell him about the Rat?
(a) That the Rat has killed the person who is speaking.
(b) That the Rat is dead.
(c) That the Rat needs will need his help tomorrow.
(d) That the Rat is going to kill him.

10. Who arrives at the villa and tells the Main Character that he has behaved selfishly?
(a) The Rat.
(b) The Sheep Man.
(c) A messenger.
(d) The Business Partner.

11. In what condition is the Main Character at the beginning of Chapter 41?
(a) He is sick with a fever and vomiting.
(b) He is sobbing and filled with despair.
(c) He is full of hope for the first time in years.
(d) He is drunk and hung-over.

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

13. Who says that names are given to things with purpose that are familiar and not mass produced?
(a) The station attendant.
(b) The Main Character.
(c) The Girlfriend.
(d) The person who picks up the cat.

14. Why does the Sheep Man tell the Main Character that he fled to the mountains?
(a) He worked for the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture.
(b) To follow the Sheep.
(c) For love.
(d) To avoid the war.

15. What does the Main Character do just before leaving the villa for the last time?
(a) Takes some books from the shelves.
(b) Connects the grandfather clock.
(c) Collects sheep wool.
(d) Writes a letter to the Girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Sheep Professor once work?

2. Whom does the Main Character discover at the unlucky bend in the road?

3. Whom does the Main Character get to agree to pickup himself and the Girlfriend at 8:00 the next morning in Chapter 31?

4. What does the person whom the Main Character discovers at the unlucky bend in the road admit to having?

5. What was the Dolphin Hotel before it was a hotel?

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