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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. In addition to caring for Mrs. Dempster, teaching, and being Boy's primary confidant, what publication is Dunstan doing a lot of writing for?
(a) Jesuit publication of the Saints.
(b) Saints of the Bollandiana.
(c) Jesuit Analecta.
(d) Analecta Bollandiana.

2. What book does Dunstan agree to write for Liesl?
(a) A story about Magnus Eisengrim.
(b) A story of their magic show.
(c) A history of magic tricks.
(d) Magnus Eisengrim's autobiography.

3. What is the name of the woman who plays Gretchen and Venus in the show Dunstan sees in Mexico?
(a) Faustina.
(b) Katarina.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Liesl.

4. Who provides the voice for the thought-sensing trick?
(a) Liesl.
(b) Paul.
(c) Dunstan.
(d) Faustina.

5. Who shows up at Leona's funeral and remarks that it must be hard for Dunstan to lose her a second time?
(a) Paul Dempster.
(b) Michael Popple.
(c) Milo Papple.
(d) Mary Dempster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date and location the narrator gives for the writing of the story?

2. Where does Dunstan place Mary Dempster for care after her aunt dies?

3. Who does Dunstan believe Eisengrim is in love with?

4. Who is Magnus Eisengrim?

5. Boy describes sex as if it were what sporting event?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does the head, during a magic show, say killed Boy Staunton?

2. Why does Mary Dempster meet Dunstan when he visits her with her coat and jacket on?

3. Why does Dunstan enjoy writing the autobiography of Magnus Eisengrim?

4. Why does Padre Blazon suggest that Dunstan put aside his guilt over Mary Dempster?

5. What memory has Boy suppressed from their childhood that shocks Dunstan when he learns Boy doesn't remember it?

6. Why does Dunstan feel that Boy is using him in his entourage?

7. Why is Leola a failure as a wife in Boy's eyes?

8. Why is Denyse's plan of getting Boy appointed Lieutenant-Governor described as a complicated plan?

9. Why, at Leona's funeral, does Dunstan feel ashamed after speaking with Milo Papple?

10. When Dunstan tries to remind Boy about the things he has done in his life, including the stone-in-the-snowball incident, Boy responds unpleasantly and accuses Dunstan of what?

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