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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Victor tell the girl working the reception desk at St. Anthony's the first time he speaks to her?
(a) She looks like she needs some coffee.
(b) He hopes his mother will die soon.
(c) She is very pretty.
(d) Her mole is probably cancerous.

2. Who does Victor tell his mother he is at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Eva's brother.
(b) Himself.
(c) Fred.
(d) His father.

3. What did Victor ask when he was taken to the police station as a boy and was questioned about the location of his mother?
(a) She is at their secret house.
(b) He hasn't seen her.
(c) She moved out of the country.
(d) To go to the bathroom.

4. What was Victor's signal from his mother when he was a boy in school?.
(a) At the store they ask for quarters at checkout stand five.
(b) To meet in the cosmetic department.
(c) He hears "The Blue Danube Waltz."
(d) His dental appointment is canceled.

5. What does Victor tell one of the women dancers at the strip club?
(a) Smoking will give her lung cancer.
(b) Her mole is probably cancerous.
(c) She should stop dying her hair.
(d) She is beautiful.

6. Where does the narrator go with the woman he meets at the church instead of the meeting room?
(a) The women's bathroom.
(b) The bus stop.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) Prison.

7. What do the people that save Victor's life send him?
(a) Threatening letters.
(b) Party invitations.
(c) Birthday cards.
(d) Family photos.

8. Why does Denny say he is collecting the objects he collects?
(a) He needs something to do.
(b) He loves rocks.
(c) He wants to build a church.
(d) For each day he is "sober."

9. What does the narrator recreate at his job?
(a) The Gettysburg Addres.
(b) The Revolutionary War.
(c) 18th century America.
(d) The Civil War.

10. Why does Victor choke himself?
(a) To make friends.
(b) To make enemies.
(c) To get a free meal.
(d) To make money.

11. What does Victor feed his mother in the hospital?
(a) Cereal.
(b) Fish.
(c) Steak.
(d) Chocolate pudding.

12. Why does Dr. Marshall assert that Victor does not want his "old" mother back?
(a) She is too strong for him.
(b) He is selfish.
(c) She abused him.
(d) He does not love her.

13. What does the narrator say to do with this book in the first line?
(a) Buy it.
(b) Burn it.
(c) Steal it and give it to a friend.
(d) Don't bother reading it.

14. According to Paige Marshall, what was stolen from under the priest's bed?
(a) Holy water.
(b) A nude magazine.
(c) An ancint foreskin.
(d) A stash of wine.

15. What piece of illegal contraband does Denny bring to work to show Victor?
(a) A joint.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A magazine.
(d) A crack pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor tell his mother when she asks how he is doing?

2. Why does Victor's mother say they will have 30 days of adventure?

3. Where does the narrator go to visit his mother?

4. Where did Ida Mancini come from?

5. What does the patient wear at the end of the chapter where Denny and Victor go to St. Anthony's?

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