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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A friend suggests the narrator should target whom for the graphic game?
(a) Omi.
(b) The colonel.
(c) The school master.
(d) His brother.

2. What word does the narrator use to describe the occupation of a night-soil man?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Devastation.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Fear.

3. With whom is the narrator typically allowed to play as a child?
(a) No one.
(b) The neighborhood girls.
(c) The neighborhood boys.
(d) The soldiers on duty.

4. On what popular playground toy do Omi and the narrator battle?
(a) The jungle gym.
(b) The swinging log.
(c) The balance beam.
(d) The slide.

5. When the narrator begins scowling at other people, he does it to appear what?
(a) Sexy.
(b) Strong.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Disinterested.

6. What does Reni's "Saint Sebastian" cause the narrator to do for the first time?
(a) Pleasure himself.
(b) Pick up a paint brush.
(c) Read the Bible.
(d) Run away from home.

7. What subject is the narrator fascinated with as a child?
(a) Health.
(b) Death.
(c) Math.
(d) Politics.

8. After Omi is expelled, the narrator dreams of doing what to a classmate?
(a) Fighting him.
(b) Killing him.
(c) Kissing him.
(d) Biting him.

9. What occupation was once held by the narrator's grandfather?
(a) President of a corporation.
(b) Lieutenant governor.
(c) Colonel governor.
(d) Naval captain.

10. What does the narrator do to please his inner demons?
(a) Make out with boys.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Make out with girls.
(d) Make the demons heroes.

11. From what illness does the narrator suffer?
(a) Autointoxication.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Epilepsy.

12. What kind of power does the narrator believe Sebastian had?
(a) Magical.
(b) Sporadic.
(c) Super.
(d) Divine.

13. What effect do death and blood have on the narrator during puberty?
(a) They haunt him.
(b) The repulse him.
(c) They arouse him.
(d) They frighten him.

14. For what does the narrator look when seeking men to be attracted to?
(a) Money.
(b) Sickliness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ignorance.

15. What object does the narrator claim to remember from his birth?
(a) The basin.
(b) His mother's necklace.
(c) The bed.
(d) His father's ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator fantasize about after his meeting with Omi in the school yard?

2. After Omi is expelled, from what physical ailment does the narrator suffer?

3. Why was the narrator once attracted to a girl on his bus?

4. In one particular story read by the narrator, what keeps a Hungarian prince alive?

5. What impression does the narrator have of Omi after meeting him alone in the schoolyard?

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