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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. On the title page of "The Clay Stack," Michael Dunbar wrote to Clay to refer to what page in "THE OLD PLAN"?
(a) 26.
(b) 64.
(c) 49.
(d) 24.

2. What was Michael's mother's profession?
(a) She was a baker.
(b) She was a nurse.
(c) She was a schoolteacher.
(d) She was a receptionist.

3. What did Penelope and Michael do with Michael's paintings of Abbey when they married?
(a) They gave them away.
(b) They sold them.
(c) They kept them.
(d) They burned them.

4. What did Abbey earn a degree in?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Education.
(c) Nursing.
(d) Art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does Matthew say the Murderer arrived in "Portrait of a Killer as a Middle-Aged Man"?

2. What is the full name of the pigeon that is described in "The Greeks Got Him"?

3. How many pages comprised the stack called "THE OLD PLAN" in "The Clay Stack"?

4. What is the name of the gray and black tabby cat described in "The Greeks Got Him"?

5. What was the name of Penelope's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does irony apply to Penelope's piano in Part 4?

2. Where did Michael Dunbar grow up? Who raised him?

3. What is the significance of the calendar that Michael got as a child?

4. How and why did Penelope purchase a piano?

5. How is Clay greeted upon returning to the Dunbar home in Part 4?

6. What pets do the Dunbars have? What is the significance of their names?

7. How is the mood developed in Part 1? What mood is evoked?

8. How did Michael and Penelope meet? What were their first impressions of each other?

9. What did Clay do after reading through the stacks of his father's plans while Michael was at the mining site in Part 4?

10. What did Michael do after his mother died? Why?

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