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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 is Campbell doing when he is caught by Frank?
(a) Eloping.
(b) Laundering money.
(c) Doing drugs.
(d) Dying.

2. Who does Nick go skiing with?
(a) Bill.
(b) Marjorie.
(c) His father.
(d) George.

3. Where does 'Cat in the Rain' take place?
(a) England.
(b) Africa.
(c) Italy.
(d) America.

4. What is significant about the waitress that serves Nick at the pub?
(a) She is deaf.
(b) She looks like his mother.
(c) She sounds like Marjorie.
(d) She is pregnant.

5. Where is the peasant's wife stored after she dies?
(a) A shallow grave.
(b) A woodshed.
(c) An ice box.
(d) A bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two men doing when they witness a funeral?

2. What does the American soldier in Italy just survive?

3. What is Harry dying from?

4. Why is Guy stopped by a fascist officer?

5. What is the old man at the bridge hiding from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bill and Nick feel about Nick's ended relationship with Marjorie?

2. What happens when Turner catches up with William Campbell?

3. What does Jim do with Liz after returning from his hunting trip?

4. What happens on the first day of Francis Macomber's hunting trip?

5. Why is Harold's mother worried about him when he returns from the war, and what does she have him do?

6. Why does Jack get a hotel room for the night of his last boxing match?

7. What does Nick's father tell him on the 4th of July, and how does Nick respond?

8. What happens to the Indian woman's husband while she is undergoing a C-Section?

9. What is given precedence over the man who dies in "Banal Story"?

10. Who does the American soldier talk with during the night, and what is said?

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