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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many siblings did Johnny have?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

2. Who wrote a letter to Johnny's family after his death saying, "for such there must be an immortality which we who tinker at the body may guess at but not understand"?
(a) James Archer.
(b) Robby Benson.
(c) Wilder Penfield.
(d) Arthur Hill.

3. What refers to a piece of music in which a refrain is repeated between episodes and often constitutes the form of the last movement of a sonata or concerto?
(a) Solario.
(b) Fugue.
(c) Rondo.
(d) Syllogism.

4. At what hospital did Johnny die?
(a) Jefferson Hospital.
(b) Memorial Hospital.
(c) The Neurological Institute.
(d) Kings Hospital.

5. What is a property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force?
(a) Popular density.
(b) Surface tension.
(c) Atomic density.
(d) Cohesion.

6. Based on Johnny's letters in "A Few More of His Letters," Johnny's parents were where in 1937 and 1938?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) The Far East.
(d) Germany.

7. After Johnny died, Frances had a hard time facing all the things that he used to love and remembered how he had especially loved his what?
(a) Horse saddle.
(b) Chem lab.
(c) Football.
(d) Catching mitt.

8. Johnny Gunther is buried on the second floor of the Mausoleum of what cemetery?
(a) Champs Elise Cemetery.
(b) Jackson Smith Cemetery.
(c) Ferncliff Cemetery.
(d) Rose Hill Cemetery.

9. What is the field of physics that is primarily concerned with the arrangement of electrons around the nucleus and the processes by which these arrangements change?
(a) Quantum physics.
(b) Atomic physics.
(c) Electrical physics.
(d) Constructive physics.

10. In 1939, Johnny's letters highlighted his interest in what in "A Few More of His Letters"?
(a) Painting.
(b) English literature.
(c) Music.
(d) Football.

11. Who did Frances go to visit to escape the stress for a while in Chapter 5?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

12. On what date was Johnny so tired he could barely get out of the bathtub in Chapter 5?
(a) July 10.
(b) June 30.
(c) June 4.
(d) June 24.

13. In Chapter 5, Johnny's father wrote that when was one of the best days Johnny had since he first became ill?
(a) Friday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

14. When was Pierre Lecomte du Nouy born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1919.

15. During his brief life, Johnny had discovered a new way to liquefy what compound?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Radon.
(c) Cryteron.
(d) Ammonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John Gunther's first novel titled?

2. What provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of systems classically parametrized by an infinite number of dynamical degrees of freedom?

3. Johnny's mother was of what religion?

4. On what date did Johnny have another bout of amnesia and began to have problems regulating his temperature in Chapter 5?

5. When did John Gunther die?

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