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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 are the ethnicities of the detectives assigned to the Henry Lamb case?
(a) Hispanic and Irish
(b) Dominican and Hispanic
(c) Italian and Dominican
(d) Irish and Jewish

2. What blocks Sherman's car when he and Maria are lost in the South Bronx?
(a) A tire
(b) Flaming garbage
(c) A giant pothole
(d) Two youths

3. How much of Oscar Suder's money does Sherman McCoy lose in Chapter 7?
(a) 400,000 dollars
(b) 45,000 dollars
(c) 60,000 dollars
(d) 150,000 dollars

4. What does Sherman promise Tommy Killian he will do?
(a) Not go to the police
(b) Stop reading the papers
(c) Move the Mercedes out of the City
(d) Talk to Maria

5. Which of the following characters is not meeting with Abe Weiss at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Larry Kramer
(b) Bernie Fitzgibbon
(c) Milt Lubel
(d) Reverend Bacon

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sherman McCoy do before going to work in Chapter 3?

2. What aspect of the Henry Lamb story does Reverend Bacon want to receive more coverage?

3. What has Campbell McCoy made out of clay in Chapter 13?

4. What is the name of the particular French bond that Sherman is currently buying?

5. Of what does Freddy Button believe Sherman is guilty?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the speech Lord Buffing makes.

2. How does Fallow falsify the source of his information regarding the Mercedes search?

3. What does Sherman realize about Maria during their conversation in Chapter 11?

4. How does Sherman McCoy's self-image change during the course of Chapter 3?

5. Why is the Herbert 92X trial becoming overblown at the Bronx courthouse?

6. How does Kramer's attempt to impress his liberal friends in Chapter 10 backfire?

7. What concerns Sherman McCoy about taking Martin and Goldberg to his garage?

8. How has Larry Kramer's career track been different from those of most of his classmates at Columbia?

9. How does Annie Lamb's situation make her cooperation with the police difficult?

10. What transformation occurs in Fallow's outlook on life during this chapter?

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