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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Bernice concerned about Holly?
(a) She looks like she hasn't slept in weeks.
(b) Bernice thinks that she will skip on the bill.
(c) Holly is talking to herself in public.
(d) She has stopped eating her pancakes.

2. What unusual fact about Jim does Holly uncover?
(a) His wife has given birth to quadruplets.
(b) He could be related to a senator.
(c) He has won the lottery.
(d) His real name is James.

3. What does Jim find in his attic?
(a) Spiders and wasps.
(b) A revolver.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) The Enemy.

4. What does Holly use as an excuse not to leave?
(a) Another beer.
(b) A second serve of the omelette.
(c) Needing the bathroom.
(d) Cleaning the dishes.

5. How do Ed Dubrovek and Steve Harkman know each other?
(a) They don't know each other at all.
(b) Steve does advertising at Ed's company.
(c) Steve is in sales at Ed's company.
(d) They are old college buddies.

6. What can a master viniculturist do exceptionally well?
(a) Hear complex rhythm in music.
(b) Play ice hockey.
(c) Appreciate the subtlety of a rare vintage.
(d) Catch a baseball.

7. What mesmerizes Holly?
(a) The tumbling shoe.
(b) The sound of the truck engine.
(c) The sparks from the crashing truck.
(d) A severed foot.

8. What physical proof does Holly have that her nightmare is real?
(a) A wound in the back of her neck.
(b) Footprints of the boogeyman at her door.
(c) Wounds on her sides.
(d) The wall is full of cracks.

9. Why does Holly believe in a god?
(a) She finds the alternative too grim.
(b) She relies on religion to solve her problems.
(c) She was raised by religious parents.
(d) Jim's miraculous rescue of the student at her school.

10. Why does the earth not speak to us?
(a) It is too busy talking to the trees.
(b) Humans are not worth talking to.
(c) It is angry that we use trees for building houses.
(d) We are not intelligent enough.

11. Why does Jim not enter the motor home at first?
(a) He has not yet loaded his shotgun.
(b) He wants to avenge the death of the stranger in the car.
(c) He is wary of finding another gunman.
(d) There is blood covering the handle.

12. How does Holly find Jim's address?
(a) She applies for it at the DMV.
(b) She discovers it by accident while driving.
(c) By checking the details of lottery winners in the OC.
(d) By checking real estate transactions in OC.

13. How much does Jim pay the cab driver?
(a) More than three times the meter.
(b) Less than the meter because the driver is so slow.
(c) One hundred dollars in coins.
(d) Nothing, he runs off without paying.

14. What does Jim find to taste like blood?
(a) Root beer.
(b) Holy water.
(c) The moisture inside a cactus.
(d) Sandy ice cubes.

15. Where does Jim get his surname from?
(a) The German name Eisenherz.
(b) Is is the name of a great Apache warrior.
(c) A character played by Bruce Willis in a movie.
(d) It is a traditional Chippewa name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim drink after his windmill nightmare?

2. What trait do Portlanders share?

3. What relatives does Jim still have?

4. How do the passenger's react to the impending bad landing?

5. What is Jim's greatest fear as the plane tries to land?

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