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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following occupations does Fife hold in Canada?
(a) Farm laborer.
(b) Miner.
(c) Ranch hand.
(d) Deck hand.

2. On which of the following dates does Fife note his desire to leave the United States first emerge?
(a) 1 April 2018.
(b) 30 March 1968.
(c) 11 September 2001.
(d) 31 March 1968.

3. Which of the following is noted as Amy’s favorite book?
(a) Swiss Family Robinson.
(b) Heidi.
(c) Little Women.
(d) Black Stallion.

4. Approximately how tall is Renée described as being?
(a) Five feet.
(b) Seven feet.
(c) Two meters.
(d) Six feet.

5. To which filmmaker’s work does Emma compare Fife’s?
(a) Coppola.
(b) Kubrick.
(c) Burns.
(d) Vertov.

6. At which of the following did Fife study as a graduate student?
(a) University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
(b) The Citadel.
(c) Goddard College.
(d) Richmond Professional Institute.

7. Which of the following is the subject of Fife’s doctoral dissertaton?
(a) Crane.
(b) Hawthorne.
(c) Frost.
(d) Melville.

8. Which of the following flights does Fife take from Washington to Boston?
(a) 867.
(b) 267.
(c) 467.
(d) 667.

9. As which of the following does Fife define “a Writer,” as he had imagined himself being (80)?
(a) “A man committed to understanding nothing by the means of language.”
(b) “A man with a child bride and listening friends.”
(c) “A man committed to understanding the means of language.”
(d) “A man committed to understanding himself and the world by means of language.”

10. Which of the following does Fife note as an earlier name of Plymouth Bay?
(a) Pring Inlet.
(b) Whitson Bay.
(c) Champlain Bay.
(d) Boston Harbor.

11. Which of the following is noted as Amy’s eye color?
(a) Brown.
(b) Green.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Blue.

12. Which of the following medications does Fife note taking?
(a) Alleve.
(b) Taxotere.
(c) Narcan.
(d) Tylenol.

13. Which of the following medications does Fife note taking?
(a) Oxycontin.
(b) Hydrocodone.
(c) Progesterone.
(d) Prednisone.

14. Fife’s comment that “he’s one of those exploratory robotic spacecraft that somehow slip past the gravitational fields of all nine planets in the solar system and never orbit or crash into anything, and eventually they sail out of the solar system, blown by the solar wind beyond the heliosphere into deep space” (71) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Tautology.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

15. Which of the following serves the Chapmans as a secretary?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Saly.
(c) Susannah.
(d) Leticia.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does Renée refer to Emma?

2. To which of the following does Fife attribute the idea that “there’s no there there” (72)?

3. Which of the following is noted as a servant in the Chapman home?

4. At which of the following schools is Fife reported to have taught?

5. The comment that “we’re only going to shoot your beautiful, brooding bald head” (10) offers an example of which of the following?

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