View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the Girlfriend and the Main Character do after planning their strategy for hunting the sheep?
(a) Buy and read books on sheep from the bookstore.
(b) Have dinner with the Sheep Lady.
(c) Go to a double feature at the theater.
(d) Interview the manager of the Ovine Theater.

4. What does the Main Character find outside of the villa that indicates someone, other than the Rat, has been there?
(a) A message stapled to a tree.
(b) Sled tracks.
(c) A woman's glove.
(d) Cigarette butts.

5. How many head of sheep does the livestock inspector say are in the town of Junitaki?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 330.
(c) 200.
(d) None.

6. Who else does the Sheep Professor say has been looking for the Sheep?
(a) The Rat.
(b) A friendly limo driver.
(c) A demanding Japanese woman.
(d) The Strange Man.

7. On what basis do the Girlfriend and the Main Character select a hotel to stay in?
(a) Its name.
(b) A recommendation from a local.
(c) Its proximity to their location.
(d) The ad in the phone book.

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

9. What does the Main Character do on the seventh day of the trip to help locate the Rat?
(a) Asks door to door.
(b) Posts fliers around the town.
(c) Calls the female friend of the Rat's.
(d) Places an ad in the paper.

10. Where do the Girlfriend and the Main Character find a phone book to look up hotels?
(a) In a boutique.
(b) In the bookstore.
(c) At a restaurant.
(d) At the Ovine Theater.

11. 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) Collect all the sheep wool he can.
(c) Set the grandfather clock.
(d) Unplug all the appliances.

12. Whom does the Main Character discover at the unlucky bend in the road?
(a) The Strange Man.
(b) The Sheep.
(c) The Sheep Man.
(d) The Girlfriend.

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

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

15. Who admits, after revealing the Rat's situation, to having sent the Girlfriend away?
(a) The Boss.
(b) The Sheep.
(c) The Rat.
(d) The Strange Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the couple first take a train to in Chapter 29?

2. What does the Territorial Government name the area where the Sheep Professor's homestead is located?

3. Who drives the vehicle that arrives to pick up the cat?

4. Who do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discover is waiting when they arrive at the villa on the mountain?

5. What does the caretaker at the ranch tell the Main Character that he must do to the sheep on the day of his visit?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 641 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample