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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. Who is Doctor Krafft?
(a) Bill's father.
(b) Winnie's boyfriend.
(c) David's therapist.
(d) Paul's brother.

2. Stofsky quotes a poem written by ________________.
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(d) e.e. cummings.

3. What is Gene's last name?
(a) Preston.
(b) Pearson.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Paulson.

4. What is David's last name?
(a) Sorenson.
(b) Stofsky.
(c) Smallwood.
(d) Smedinghoff.

5. What does Stofsky do when the people in #52 arrive?
(a) Lets them search the apartment.
(b) Promises to turn down the stereo.
(c) Hides in the closet.
(d) Pays them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Paul's last name?

2. What is Daniel's last name?

3. Which of the following does NOT describe the people at Stofsky's party?

4. Each of the characters is searching for?

5. Which girl does Gene take away from the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Jack Waters' Existential thoughts not taken seriously?

2. Why are Paul and Kathryn at odds about his writing career and her job?

3. What is the premise of GO?

4. Describe the scene where Stofsky goes to see Waters in his flat and is picked up by the asylum attendants.

5. What is the significance of Paul Hobbes writing a love letter at the beginning of the novel?

6. What is an example of how the post-war search for meaning is taking on toll on people?

7. How does the frantic behavior of the characters undermine their relationships with each other?

8. How are psychotherapy and writing compared and which seems to help the characters in the book?

9. What are some of the ways in which Stofsky searches for meaning in his life?

10. What does the aimless behavior of the characters signify in the book?

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