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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 Mr. G. block unemployment?
(a) To keep people from learning about the side business.
(b) To teach his employees a lesson.
(c) He can save money that way.
(d) He doesn't believe in hand outs.

2. What does the narrator like to do but not do?
(a) Read magazines but not buy them.
(b) Listen to the preachers but not believe.
(c) Taste new foods but not pay for them.
(d) Open packages that are not for him.

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

4. For what does Nelson claim to be a sucker?
(a) Words of Jesus.
(b) Harold's price schemes.
(c) The belief that things will change.
(d) The white man's supremacy.

5. What do the Asians insist the Bulgarian do when he is cornered?
(a) Commit hara-kiri.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Come with them to the embassy.
(d) Return their possessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what color does Harold say is the only color that he is concerned?

2. For what is the narrator searching?

3. Why does Leon rush back to the breakfast room?

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

5. What does Jones denies kept Charles and Jones from being friends?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Charles seem to others and what does this lead people to think about the events that lead to his trial?

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

10. What does Harold's wife, Ruth, demand he do and if he doesn't follow through, what does she say will happen?

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