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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The novel entitled Akin includes an epigraph consisting of how many definitions of the word 'akin'?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. What is the subject of the book Noah buys at the airport bookstore?
(a) Pere Sonne's work.
(b) Salvador Dali's work.
(c) Ansel Adams's work.
(d) Man Ray's work.

3. How many photographs are included in the text prior to Chapter I: The Call?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. Who tells Noah that it had likely been Victor who was responsible for the crime to which Amber confessed?
(a) Joan.
(b) Cody.
(c) Vivienne.
(d) Rose.

5. What image on Noah's phone case does he explain to Michael as "a sort of family tree" (64)?
(a) The periodic table.
(b) A map of France.
(c) The theory of relativity.
(d) A recipe for hot chocolate.

6. Which body part did Noah's father Marc lose within the first month of World War I?
(a) His hand.
(b) His ear.
(c) His leg.
(d) His foot.

7. The narrator states in Chapter 1: The Call that Noah will turn how old the following Monday?
(a) 70.
(b) 60.
(c) 80.
(d) 40.

8. As Noah gets ready one February day to travel to a particular city in France, he reflects that he has not been there since what age?
(a) 14.
(b) 34.
(c) 24.
(d) 4.

9. What type of family heirlooms did Victor steal during Joan's funeral?
(a) Rare coins.
(b) Pieces of silverware.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Quilts.

10. What is the subject of the poster about which Michael comments in Chapter III: Takeoff Speed?
(a) Memorial Day.
(b) 9/11.
(c) The Fourth of July.
(d) The Columbine tragedy.

11. Michael tells Noah that he heard the poster's subject had been orchestrated by whom?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Jews.
(c) The Communists.
(d) The Alt-Right.

12. How many years older than his late younger sister was Noah?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

13. One of the three objects Noah keeps within Chapter 1: The Call is a sheaf of what kind of poetry written by his younger sister on Thanksgiving of 2002?
(a) Couplets.
(b) Limericks.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Villanelles.

14. How many years had Noah and his father Marc been apart before Margot sent Noah to New York City to live with Marc?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

15. In what year did Joan meet her best friend Vivienne in first grade at "their tony New York girls' school" (16)?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. To how many years of prison was Amber sentenced when she took a plea?

2. The epigraph of the novel classifies the novel's title as which part of speech?

3. Noah and Joan were married for "not-quite" (13) how many years before her death?

4. What weapon does Noah bring up when he asks Michael if he has anything sharp on his person at the airport?

5. To what object does Donoghue compare Noah in terms of his parents' treatment of him during childhood?

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