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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 man with the pistol offers to allow Anders to perform what type of favor for him?
(a) A momentary one.
(b) A big one.
(c) A small one.
(d) A sexual one.

2. 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?
(a) The ceiling.
(b) The back of the bank.
(c) The floor.
(d) The wallpaper.

3. Who asks Anders whether he considers them "comical" (29)?
(a) The bank manager.
(b) The man with the shotgun.
(c) The man with the pistol.
(d) The woman in front of him in line.

4. What two adjectives are used to describe the smell Anders detects?
(a) Ugly and noxious.
(b) Piercing and ammoniac.
(c) Pleasant and sweet.
(d) Noxious and overwhelming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Between utterances of the word the man with the pistol had just said, Anders invokes the name of what deity?

2. When Anders imagines a cartoon bubble emerging from the bull's mouth, what does it say that causes Anders to laugh?

3. What verb is used to describe the way in which the bullet travels through Anders's brain?

4. What part of the brain is NOT mentioned as collecting pieces of bone as the bullet destroys Anders's skull?

5. What verb is used to describe the movement of Anders's bones after a bullet enters his skull?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence is there to suggest that Anders does recognize positive aspects of even art he considers subpar?

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

3. In what way does Anders react to the man with the pistol's use of 1940s slang and what is the end result?

4. Discuss an instance of irony within the story.

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

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

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

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

9. How many years ago had the event at the center of Anders's one witnessed memory taken place?

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

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