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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 does he have to say in the phone call?
(a) He says that he is in love with Vicky and needs to find her.
(b) He says that he just passed out hysterically laughing at Amanda.
(c) He says that he is a cocaine addict and needs help.
(d) He says that his mother died a year ago.

2. What image of their mother does Michael keep in his memory?
(a) An image of their mother coughing.
(b) An image of their mother raking leaves.
(c) An image of their mother falling asleep.
(d) An image of their mother baking bread.

3. How does the narrator clean out his desk?
(a) He and Megan separate everything into piles.
(b) He enlists the help of a moving company.
(c) He dumps everything into wastebaskets.
(d) He takes everything into Clara's office and dumps it.

4. How does the narrator feel in his meeting with Clara?
(a) Detached: like a samurai, she cannot hurt him if he has already resolved to die.
(b) Afraid: he does not want Clara doing him bodily harm.
(c) Giddy: he hates this job and wants to quit.
(d) Horrified: he is completely blindsided by their conversation.

5. Where does the narrator decide to go?
(a) The office.
(b) Home.
(c) Odeon.
(d) The Lion's Head Pub.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator receive a phone call from after finishing the last of the drugs as Michael sleeps?

2. Who is waiting at the narrator's apartment when he comes back from lunch?

3. Where do the narrator and Megan go to eat?

4. For what does the narrator ask the man unloading the truck?

5. According to Megan, what was the only coherent thing Alex said when he was discovered?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is a home-cooked meal such a novelty for the narrator?

2. What does the reader learn about Megan's past?

3. What exhibit in the museum is the narrator's favorite?

4. What catalysts are responsible for the narrator rising early, reading the paper, and arriving on time to work?

5. Why does the narrator opt to take Megan's valium?

6. Why does Megan invite the narrator to dinner at her apartment?

7. Why does Michael say he never liked Amanda?

8. What does Michael theorize may have spurred the narrator to marry Amanda?

9. Why is the narrator unsettled by the absence of Amanda's mannequin?

10. Why does the narrator go to the party with Tad?

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