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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. Where does Jack sleep during a break in the trip to Mexico?
(a) In a park.
(b) At a friend's house.
(c) A hotel.
(d) The desert.

2. What is Jack looking at when he has his first 'awakening'?
(a) The sunrise.
(b) The stars.
(c) A mouse.
(d) The Northern Lights.

3. What does Jack do on Sunday mornings while he is working in Washington?
(a) Meets up with Lulu.
(b) Listens to the radio.
(c) Meditates.
(d) Writes to his mother.

4. What does Jack do with Cody's children while he is at work?
(a) Takes them on a tour of Chinatown.
(b) Plays magical games with them.
(c) Teaches them about poetry.
(d) Draws pictures of them.

5. Which of the following is NOT a reason that Jack gives for no longer being desirable to women?
(a) He is 34.
(b) He is too intelligent.
(c) He is wearing dirty jeans.
(d) He has wine on his teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what holiday does Jack arrive in Texas after his stay in Mexico?

2. Why does Gaines have cabs drop him off a block from his house?

3. What does Jack like to invent?

4. What sport does Jack play in school?

5. What is Jack's Solitaire game based on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack think about the men looking at a pornographic magazine?

2. What is the purest truth that Jack has learned from Buddha?

3. Why is Jack not affected by the news stories going on around him when he is in Washington?

4. What does Simon save his brother from?

5. What does Jack take pity on the hipsters in Mexico for?

6. How does Jack feel about Irwin's proposed visit to Jack in Mexico?

7. What is it that Jack desires, and yet fears above all?

8. Why is Jack so void of emotion as he leaves the cabin where he lived in all summer?

9. Why is Jarry fired from the fire station?

10. Why does Mount Hozomeen become Jack's metaphor for The Void?

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