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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Do the narrator and Vicky get along?
(a) Maybe, the narrator cannot tell for sure.
(b) No, they instantly dislike each other.
(c) No, she is insensitive and rude.
(d) Yes, surprisingly well.

2. Who is Alex Hardy?
(a) A fellow Facts Department coworker.
(b) A doorman who occasionally works the elevator.
(c) The narrator's brother.
(d) A fiction editor emeritus.

3. What kind of guy does the narrator see himself as?
(a) The kind of guy who runs marathons for fun.
(b) The kind of guy who is the life of the party.
(c) The kind of guy who appreciates a night a home with a good book.
(d) The kind of guy who enjoys facts and spurns fiction.

4. Where do Tad and the narrator go to party?
(a) Dubai.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) The Smith.
(d) Odeon.

5. In which department would the narrator rather be working?
(a) The Fiction Department.
(b) The Department of Factual Verification.
(c) The Department of Photography.
(d) The Grammar Department.

6. How was the narrator's innocent advice perceived by his superiors at the magazine?
(a) They were in awe and immediately promoted him.
(b) There never found out that he did it.
(c) They were completely outraged at his presumption.
(d) They promptly fired him and he has been on the job market ever since.

7. How does the narrator feel about his childhood?
(a) He felt he was always on the outside looking in.
(b) He feels he had a very normal, average childhood.
(c) He felt loved and treasured, easily making friends.
(d) He is not really affected by his past one way or the other.

8. Whose picture does the narrator see on Rittenhouse's paper?
(a) Megan Avery's picture.
(b) His mother's picture.
(c) His own picture.
(d) Amanda's picture.

9. Who has left a message for him inside the apartment?
(a) Tad Allagash.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Michael.
(d) His father.

10. What does the homeless person do on the narrator's train ride to work?
(a) The homeless man sits on an old lady.
(b) The homeless man accosts the narrator.
(c) The homeless man steals the New York Post.
(d) The homeless man steals the narrator's cocaine.

11. What was the narrator's most significant contact with The Druid?
(a) The Druid's unexpected presence at the narrator's wedding.
(b) The day the Druid sat on an old lady in the subway.
(c) The day the Druid caught the narrator snorting coke in the bathroom.
(d) The Druid's concern over the President's usage of the word "precipitous."

12. Who has called in sick to the office?
(a) Megan Avery.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The Druid.
(d) Clara Tillinghast.

13. Why does the narrator like Tad Allagash?
(a) Allagash never asks him probing questions: their friendship is very surface.
(b) He and Allagash have been through a lot of tough times together.
(c) Allagash is helping the narrator win back Amanda, the love of his life.
(d) He and Allagash have been friends since childhood.

14. Why does the narrator dislike going home?
(a) His apartment is a slum and infested with cockroaches.
(b) He lives with an unruly roommate.
(c) He lives with his nagging mother.
(d) His apartment is haunted with thoughts of his ex-wife.

15. What is the New Jersey state motto?
(a) The Crossroads of America.
(b) The Show-Me State.
(c) The Big Sky State.
(d) The Garden State.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what do Elaine's dance moves remind the narrator?

2. Of what do the potted plants remind the narrator?

3. Why has Tad insisted on making up stories about Amanda and the narrator's separation?

4. When did the narrator propose to Amanda?

5. After what duration of time did the narrator and Amanda move in together?

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