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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book of Dunstan's becomes a bestseller?
(a) Thousand Saints for Travelers.
(b) The autobiography of Magnus Eisengrim.
(c) Thousand Saints for Teachers and Students.
(d) A History of Saints in Europe.

2. What is Boy Staunton's best selling item?
(a) Doughnuts.
(b) Vitamin enriched bread.
(c) Soft drinks.
(d) Sugar.

3. Liesl suggests that Eisengrim set up an automatic payment at the bank to do what?
(a) Pay Dunstan to help his mother.
(b) Cover the costs of Dunstan's further travel.
(c) Pay the salaries of the show's employees.
(d) Help pay for his mother's care.

4. What are the police puzzled to find in Boy's mouth?
(a) A bottle of liquor.
(b) A love letter from his mistress.
(c) A small stone about the size of an egg.
(d) A lace stocking.

5. Boy makes a fortune during what time period because he specializes in providing bulky, comforting and cheap food?
(a) World War II.
(b) The 1940's.
(c) The 1910's.
(d) The Depression.

6. Since the former Headmaster died, what has Dunstan been doing?
(a) Serving as the head teacher to help the interim Headmaster.
(b) Serving as temporary Headmaster.
(c) Serving as the head of the history department.
(d) Serving as the head of the search for a new Headmaster.

7. What is the name of the woman Boy Staunton marries after the death of his first wife?
(a) Dora Hancock.
(b) Denyse Hornick .
(c) Dolly Halibut.
(d) Darla Harris.

8. What holiday does Boy Staunton's son hate?
(a) Easter.
(b) Halloween.
(c) New Years.
(d) Christmas.

9. Who is Magnus Eisengrim?
(a) Padre Barzon.
(b) A friend of Percy's.
(c) Paul Dempster.
(d) An old student of Dunstan's.

10. What health problem led to Mary Dempster's death?
(a) Hitting her head.
(b) Falling down the stairs.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A stroke.

11. What does Liesl tell Dunstan his obsession with Mary Dempster is about?
(a) His inability to love a woman.
(b) His inability to love his mother.
(c) His inability to connect with his fellow human beings.
(d) His inability to feel love for anyone.

12. Where does Dunstan go the summer after Mary Dempster's death?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Europe.
(c) California.
(d) Far East.

13. The role of Fifth Business is from what art form?
(a) Opera.
(b) Music.
(c) Theater.
(d) Drama.

14. Who does Dunstan believe Eisengrim is in love with?
(a) His dead mother.
(b) Liesl.
(c) Himself.
(d) Faustina.

15. When Dunstan finds the Bollandists, where does he find Padre Blazon?
(a) In a resturaunt in Paris.
(b) In the Bollandist monastary.
(c) In a hospital in Vienna.
(d) At a church in Lyon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dunstan blames Mrs. Dempster's broken spirits on what act of his?

2. What does Boy tell his fashionable friends that Dunstan is?

3. What is the relationship between Faustina and Eisengrim?

4. What is the name of the daughter of Boy Staunton's second wife?

5. The Board of the school where Dunstan is teaching wants its new Headmaster to be what?

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