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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. Why does the narrator value Ginny?
(a) For her stories.
(b) For her mind.
(c) For her wit.
(d) For her beauty.

2. For what is the narrator searching?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) His one true love.
(c) The definition of love.
(d) How God sees the end of the world.

3. What happens when Paul is transferred to Oakland, CA?
(a) He is attacked by a stranger.
(b) He immediately asks for a transfer to Tennessee.
(c) He marries a black girl.
(d) He begins working in a mental hospital.

4. What do the Redeemer's friends say about the Bible?
(a) It does not talk about the end of time.
(b) They should be reading it and respecting it.
(c) There is no true Bible.
(d) Everything in it is false.

5. What is Paul's means of redeeming family?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Music.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator believe is the safest possible place?

2. Why did Clair invite Louis to Los Angeles?

3. How do the other diners look at the people involved in the theft?

4. What does Daniel warn Paul about his daughter?

5. Which of the following women does Louis know he loves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Redeemer's friends as he sees them.

2. Describe the character Clair as seen through Louis's eyes.

3. When Mrs. Richards bets a woman is fattening Louis up for the fry, about what does Louis think?

4. How does Leon describe his landlady?

5. What does the group of storytellers who Ginny joined consider themselves and what happens to change this?

6. What happens when Charles interrupts his attorney's summation?

7. What does the narrator say to those who come to him telling him that anything not in the Bible is false?

8. What does the narrator say great literature has given way to?

9. What does Leon say that causes her to call her husband a bigot?

10. What makes Eunice wonder about the hotel's breakfast calls?

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