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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. The memory that emerges within Anders's conscious mind takes place in what season?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.

2. What verb is used to describe the movement of Anders's bones after a bullet enters his skull?
(a) Spread.
(b) Scattered.
(c) Sprayed.
(d) Flew.

3. How many times does Anders apologize to the man with the pistol before repeating again the word the man had previously uttered?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. To what location does Anders direct his eyes after the man with the pistol first demands that Anders adjust his gaze?
(a) He closes his eyes.
(b) To the front door of the bank.
(c) To the ceiling.
(d) To the man's feet.

5. The man with the pistol asks Anders whether Anders thinks that the man is "some kind of" (29) what?
(a) Clown.
(b) Idiot.
(c) Creep.
(d) Patsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man with the pistol do with the pistol just before shooting Anders in the head?

2. What object is stated to be much faster than the bullet speeding through Anders's head?

3. What is Anders's reaction to the word the man utters after he states Anders's consequence for a certain action?

4. When the man with the pistol rejects Anders's choice of where to direct his gaze for the second time, toward what object does the man direct Anders's gaze?

5. How many "feet per second" (35) is the bullet said to be moving after it strikes a particular object?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the overall subject of the mural painted upon the bank's ceiling?

2. What is ironic about the mural artist's portrayal of the story of Zeus and Europa?

3. What factors lead to the memory from "forty years past" (35) being called up rather than another memory?

4. Wolff compares the speeds of what two objects within Paragraph 35?

5. Describe the eyes of the man with the pistol.

6. What piece of 1940s slang does the man with the pistol use and how does Anders react?

7. What threat does the man with the pistol make against Anders before shooting him?

8. What event causes Anders to imagine a cartoon bubble and what does it say?

9. Discuss an instance of irony within Anders's final moments.

10. What specific reaction does Anders have to his vision of a cartoon bubble and how do you know?

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