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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song did Penelope play on the piano after breaking her nose?
(a) The Four Seasons.
(b) Moonlight Sonata.
(c) Canon in D.
(d) Carmina Burana.

2. What movie was Matthew watching when Clay returned home in "The Violence of Brothers"?
(a) The Bachelor Party.
(b) Rain Man.
(c) Turner and Hutch.
(d) Gremilns.

3. What color was Abbey Hanley's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blonde.

4. How did Michael propose to Penelope?
(a) He painted his proposal on her mirror.
(b) He got on his knee at a disco.
(c) He painted his proposal on her piano keys.
(d) He painted a proposal on canvas and placed it in her room.

5. Who is the second-youngest of the Dunbar brothers?
(a) Henry.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Clay.
(d) Rory.

6. Where did Penelope reach a refugee camp where whe was interviewed and fingerprinted in "The Birthday Girl"?
(a) Traiskirchen.
(b) Salzberg.
(c) Klagenfurt.
(d) West Berlin.

7. When did the East German government announce that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin?
(a) March, 1985.
(b) January, 1993.
(c) May, 1995.
(d) November, 1989.

8. When did Penelope and Michael arrange for their first official "date," according to the narrator in "Like Skiers on a Mountainside"?
(a) Saturday at 6:00.
(b) Sunday at 3:00.
(c) Saturday at 4:00.
(d) Friday at 7:00.

9. What was the date that the Murderer was said to have come home in "The Forces are Displayed"?
(a) September 12.
(b) March 2.
(c) February 17.
(d) June 23.

10. Who was the next-door neighbor to the Dunbars in "Portrait of a Killer as a Middle-Aged Man"?
(a) Mrs. De Witt.
(b) Mrs. Haas.
(c) Mrs. England.
(d) Mrs. Chilman.

11. What object in the house does the narrator say "watched [the Murderer] from behind" in the end of "The Greeks Got Him" (34)?
(a) "The mirror."
(b) "The piano."
(c) "The chair."
(d) "The fence."

12. What was Claudia's surname before she married?
(a) Kirkby.
(b) Draft.
(c) Merchison.
(d) Hanley.

13. Who is the woman that gave Matthew directions to the Merchisons' home in "Before the Beginning"?
(a) Daphne.
(b) Abbey.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Marie.

14. What is the name of the gray and black tabby cat described in "The Greeks Got Him"?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Hector.
(d) Homer.

15. What was the name of the red cattle dog Michael had as a teen?
(a) Rosy.
(b) Homer.
(c) Moon.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals did Matthew dig up before finding the typewriter in "Before the Beginning"?

2. Who is the second-eldest Dunbar brother?

3. To what is the sun in Australia compared through metaphor in the beginning of "The Mistake Maker"?

4. How did Penelope break her nose on the night before her wedding?

5. What color hair did Penelope have?

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