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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 animal does Megan say was found in the mail room?
(a) An iguana.
(b) A ferret.
(c) A mink.
(d) A puppy.

2. What does the narrator drop in the bathroom?
(a) The vial of cocaine Tad gave him.
(b) The paper with Vicky's phone number.
(c) His glasses.
(d) His wallet and credit cards.

3. With whom does the narrator make a lunch date for the next day?
(a) The Druid.
(b) Megan Avery.
(c) Vicky Hollins.
(d) Clara Tillinghast.

4. What does the narrator offer to trade with the man?
(a) He offers to trade his sunglasses.
(b) He offers his shoes.
(c) He offers cocaine.
(d) He offers to wash dishes.

5. What does the narrator discover in an envelope in his desk?
(a) Amanda's picture.
(b) Bolivian powder.
(c) An old check he forgot to cash.
(d) His wedding ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one subject that the narrator and his mother talk about?

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

3. Who offers the narrator a reference when he returns to the office?

4. Why has Michael come to get the narrator?

5. What is the narrator's punishment for failing in his duty?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What elements of the fashion show does the narrator find contemptuous?

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

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

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

6. How has the narrator gotten the ticket for Amanda's fashion show?

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

8. How does Michael's reappearance change the narrator's demeanor?

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

10. Why does Michael say he never liked Amanda?

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