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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator get the girl to dance with him longer after she's said she is tired?
(a) He offers her drugs which she gladly takes.
(b) He threatens her with bodily harm.
(c) He pays the DJ to play better songs.
(d) He gives her a rose and tells her she is beautiful.

2. In what point of view is the novel written?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Third person.
(d) Second person.

3. What heath ailment does Wade knowingly joke about with the narrator?
(a) The narrator's strep throat.
(b) The narrator's ear infection.
(c) The narrator's sinus infection.
(d) The narrator's influenza.

4. How do the narrator's coworkers react after his deadline is changed?
(a) They are ecstatic and want to see him fired.
(b) They are sympathetic and want to help him.
(c) They are angry and shun him.
(d) They are horrified and boycott the company.

5. In which branch of the magazine does the narrator work?
(a) The Fiction Department.
(b) The Department of Factual Verification.
(c) The Grammar Department.
(d) The New Voices Department.

6. Who is the narrator's direct supervisor?
(a) Megan Avery.
(b) Clara Tillinghast.
(c) Rittenhouse.
(d) Yasu Wade.

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

8. Who settled their divorce?
(a) Amanda's agent.
(b) Amanda's lawyer.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) Michael.

9. Why is Amanda embarrassed for the narrator to meet her mother, Dolly?
(a) Dolly is hard of hearing and speaks very loudly.
(b) Dolly has amnesia and cannot remember anything.
(c) Dolly is crass and uneducated.
(d) Dolly is beautiful and makes Amanda feel inadequate.

10. What sports faux pas does the narrator commit at the Irish bar?
(a) He calls a baseball inning a quarter.
(b) He calls a hockey puck a ball.
(c) He calls a baseball run a point.
(d) He calls a basketball quarter a period.

11. To what famous figure does the narrator compare himself?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Richard III.

12. What is the animal's name?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Fred.
(c) George.
(d) Sue anne.

13. How did Amanda end her relationship with the narrator?
(a) A letter from Milan.
(b) A dinner in New York.
(c) An email.
(d) A phone call from Paris.

14. Who is The Druid?
(a) He is the narrator's direct superior, nicknamed Clingfast.
(b) He is the fourth man to head the company.
(c) He is a ghost of a man who has been working on an article for seven years.
(d) He is an often-encountered man on the subway.

15. Who does the narrator hope to meet in the club?
(a) The co-worker of his dreams, Clara Tillinghast.
(b) The kind of girl who would not be in a place like that.
(c) A movie star.
(d) His ex-wife Amanda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What suit does the narrator take against Amanda?

2. Who does the narrator encounter at the club?

3. Where does the narrator call from an empty office on the thirtieth floor?

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

5. Who calls to wake up the narrator?

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