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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. Who reminded Rogers of a disturbance caused by Charles previously?
(a) Ex-secretary.
(b) Piknett.
(c) Grant.
(d) Johnson.

2. Why does the narrator head for the East?
(a) Words have detached from emotion and passion.
(b) It is softer there.
(c) This is the new Mecca and he is drawn there.
(d) He is obliged to go there.

3. Which of the following characters is considered an instant hero?
(a) Harold.
(b) Megan.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Nelson.

4. What does Thomas use to sell insurances policies?
(a) Fears and love.
(b) Reactions to others.
(c) Paranoia.
(d) Death as a long happiness.

5. In what month did Ginny and Paul get married?
(a) Novemeber.
(b) March.
(c) May.
(d) June.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the Germans insist on visiting?

2. What does Viola do when she meets Louis?

3. What do the people chant?

4. Why does Harold say that his prices have to be higher in some stores than others?

5. What does Viola complain that Louis has done?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth want to advise Harold to do and what does she do instead?

2. What does the narrator say that he is enough of a realist to accept?

3. What does Paul do after months of silence at the mental hospital?

4. What is the first parable about the narrator shares?

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

6. What are the Foster's doing because it was recommended and because they are tired of tourism?

7. What does Jed Jones say happened after he heard the shots?

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

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

10. What is Harold Green caught doing that angers people in the community?

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