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

2. The final act of the show Dunston sees in Latin America is based on what tale?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Faust.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) Gertrude.

3. Before being able to write Boy's autobiography, Dunstan suffers from what health issue?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A stroke.
(c) Pnemonia.
(d) The flu.

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

5. Who tells David of his mother's death?
(a) Boy.
(b) Percy.
(c) Dunstan.
(d) Caroline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Liesl was raised in what religion?

2. Liesl is a student of what?

3. Who asks Dunstan to write the official autobiography of Boy's life?

4. When does Mrs. Dempster die?

5. Liesl suggests that Eisengrim set up an automatic payment at the bank to do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Paul's hopes for the show after Mexico?

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

4. When Dunstan is in the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, what is he pondering?

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

6. What is Padre Blazon's personal theory about what will happen when Jesus returns?

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

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

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

10. Why is Dunstan furious at Boy when Boy gives him the roll of film to develop?

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