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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of vest does the Indian wear who enters the tavern in Chapter 35?
(a) Checkered.
(b) Beaded.
(c) Sheep's skin.
(d) Leather.

2. In Chapter 34, Fulghum claims that the majority of stuff comes from two sources. What are these sources he is speaking of?
(a) People and animals.
(b) Plants and animals.
(c) People and meteorites.
(d) Animals and bugs.

3. What was Menon's last conscious act?
(a) Menon donated his life savings to a local orphanage.
(b) Menon gave a beggar a pair of sandals for his sore feet.
(c) Menon asked his daughter to give a beggar fifteen rupees out of his wallet.
(d) Menon gave money to his daughter to distribute among the local beggars.

4. When the grumpy-looking man picks up his little gift and starts to walk toward the garbage, Fulghum mentions that it looks as if the man is carrying what?
(a) An old head of cabbage.
(b) A moldy piece of stinky cheese.
(c) A dead roach.
(d) A poopy diaper.

5. When Fulghum experiences his solace from depression, where does he lie down?
(a) On the floor.
(b) In a hammock.
(c) On his bed.
(d) In his yard on the lawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is contained on the tablet that is in the British Museum that Fulghum mentions in Chapter 32?

2. When the man in Chapter 16 was testing his theory on whether you can trust people, how many taxi drivers out of thirty-seven cheated him?

3. Fulghum remembers eating chocolate cookies and drinking sweet milk. What does he say they drank the milk out of?

4. When Fulghum talks about the people that are always prepared and organized in Chapter 20, what object does he say these people have that work and they actually know where they are?

5. At the end of Chapter 36, Fulghum receives a present in the mail from Nampa, Idaho. What is the gift that he receives?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 20, what kind of people does Fulghum say he lives in awe of?

2. In Chapter 40, what happens when V.P. Menon arrives in Delhi to seek a job in government?

3. Describe Fulghum's ride home in an ancient pickup truck in Chapter 17.

4. What happened in Chapter 24 when Fulghum tries to organize a game of giants, wizards, and dwarfs?

5. In Chapter 19, when Mr. Washington comes over to Fulghum's home and starts spraying the dandelions, what kind of discussion does this spark?

6. Describe Larry Walters' contraption that Fulghum mentions in Chapter 38 and what he has with him as he floats over Los Angeles.

7. Why does Fulghum tell the reader in Chapter 16 to not be mislead by the stories we hear of crookedness and corruption?

8. In Chapter 33, what does Fulghum say is his first clue that Elias Schwartz is the new Haiho Lama?

9. In Chapter 27, what does the man with scrooge-itis say about receiving gifts?

10. In Chapter 29, what does the couple that lives across the street from the author buy to ride on, and how does the couple ride it?

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