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

2. What does Clair have a command of that Louis admires?
(a) Fashion.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) The audience.
(d) Makeup.

3. Why does Nelson say that average men are not really men?
(a) They cannot be broken by the weight.
(b) They run away rather than facing adversaries.
(c) They believe in the word of God.
(d) They feel pain, and pain changes views.

4. What do the bobbies discuss on the way back to the hotel?
(a) The fact that they'd rather be working at their desks.
(b) The surprising frequency of thefts at that hotel.
(c) The overriding belief that this is a waste of their time.
(d) A homesexual rally.

5. Which of the following characters is described as obviously successful if not wealthy?
(a) Louis.
(b) Fredericka.
(c) Maltz.
(d) Clair.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does the woman who sits next to the Fosters complain?

2. What is Ruth waiting for an opening to tell Harold?

3. Why does the narrator head for the East?

4. Who reminded Rogers of a disturbance caused by Charles previously?

5. What does the narrator like to do but not do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Nelson Reed and what does he become?

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

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

5. What does Charles do that is unlike Detroit-born mechanics and what does he think will happen as a result of this?

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

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

8. Why does the editor feel obliged to impose order on the piece of writing in front of him?

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

10. How does Leon describe his landlady?

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