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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. Before implementing his plan, what does the narrator compare himself to?
(a) He compares himself to children at family holidays.
(b) He compares himself to menorah in a Christmas tree shop.
(c) He compares himself to a terrorist waiting in unsuspecting crowd.
(d) He compares himself to a tourist in Times Square.

2. How does Michael get into the narrator's apartment?
(a) He pleads with the narrator to let him in.
(b) He forces his way through the door.
(c) He claims he is a parcel service.
(d) He has brought a police escort.

3. How does the narrator's mother describe the pain she is in?
(a) She likens it to a broken arm.
(b) She likens it to going to the dentist.
(c) She likens it to the pain she felt during the narrator's birth.
(d) She likens it to having a sunburn.

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

5. What is the narrator's favorite exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum?
(a) The European paintings from 1700-1750.
(b) The Dinosaurs.
(c) The Egyptian wing.
(d) The Ancient Chinese Peoples exhibit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does the narrator give to the greeter?

2. What does the narrator feel he must relearn?

3. Why has Michael come to get the narrator?

4. What suspicion does the narrator accidentally give the bartender?

5. What work does Michael offer the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the narrator and Amanda speak?

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

3. What is the narrator's reaction when he sees his brother waiting on the stoop?

4. Why does the narrator leap out of the limo to escape his conversation with Bernie, the drug lord?

5. What is the significance of the rolls of bread?

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

7. Why does Michael say he never liked Amanda?

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

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

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

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