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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. When Dunstan visits Mary Dempster, after his return from Europe, what is she wearing each time he comes?
(a) Her coat and hat.
(b) The same dress.
(c) Her dress and shawl.
(d) Her bathrobe.

2. 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) Saints of the Bollandiana.
(b) Jesuit publication of the Saints.
(c) Jesuit Analecta.
(d) Analecta Bollandiana.

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

4. Dunstan asks Padre Blazon if he has found God helps him be what?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Happy.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Old.

5. When does Mrs. Dempster die?
(a) A year after Boy's second wedding.
(b) A year after Dunstan returns from Mexico.
(c) A year after Boy returns from his war efforts.
(d) A year after Dunstan stops visiting her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boy rely on Dunstan for at parties?

2. Where does Dunstan go the summer after Mary Dempster's death?

3. On the Opera stages of Europe, what kind of voice usually plays the odd man out?

4. What is on the roll of film Boy gives to Dunston to develop?

5. Liesl was raised in what religion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the young men that Boy takes under his wing in his company as prodigies?

2. When it becomes evident to Dunstan that Paul does not want him back stage, what does he do?

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

6. What causes Boy to take a walk by himself during the Christmas season of 1936?

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

8. 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?

9. Why does Dunstan not want to write Boy's memoir when Denyse asks him to?

10. What are some of the options that Dunstan thinks of while he is in the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe for why people believe in miracles and have faith?

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