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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 arrives at Waters' apartment?
(a) The Chinese take-out guy.
(b) The asylum attendants.
(c) The neighbors.
(d) The police.

2. How does Paul feel when seeing the fight between the two men over the woman?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Fascinated.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Intrigued.

3. Stofsky's party is full of ____________________.
(a) food.
(b) strangers.
(c) drunks.
(d) hookers.

4. Who does Paul fall in love with when he returns to Columbia after his military discharge?
(a) Liza.
(b) Ava.
(c) Marie.
(d) Jenny.

5. Who is Stofsky's therapist?
(a) Dr. Milan.
(b) Dr. Yohannes.
(c) Dr. Krafft.
(d) Dr. Groby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Kathryn?

2. Waters raves that time is a/an __________________.

3. Each of the characters is searching for?

4. Gene tactfully does not mention Paul's _____________________.

5. Both Paul and Gene have written __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the budding romance between Pasternak and Christine begin to mirror that of Paul and Kathryn's marriage?

2. What does the party at Stofsky's apartment serve as a metaphor for?

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

4. How does Pasternak show his immaturity regarding Georgia and his still living with his parents?

5. Who is Christine and why is she in contrast to the other characters?

6. How are Paul and Kathryn at odds regarding their different emotional needs?

7. Why is Pasternak standing in front of Christine's house when Stofsky and Hobbes try to find him in the bars?

8. What is the premise of GO?

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

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

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