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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 the final gift the narrator gives the beggar in "Christmas Means Giving"?
(a) His liver.
(b) His VCR.
(c) His wife.
(d) His sons.

2. What does Jim Timothy call the people he is addressing in the church?
(a) Rubes.
(b) Hillbillies.
(c) Hicks.
(d) Rednecks.

3. Before visiting the church, where else has Jim Timothy recently been?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

4. What kind of appliance does Jim Timothy offer each member of the church congregation?
(a) Washer.
(b) Dryer.
(c) Stove.
(d) Refrigerator.

5. What do the Cottinghams send out for a Christmas card?
(a) Dollar bills.
(b) Family pictured with last year's gifts.
(c) Family pictured working at a soup kitchen.
(d) Xeroxed copy of stock portfolio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Cottingham's maid?

2. What show does Thaddeus Bristol say the Scottsfield Dinner Theater put on in 1994?

3. What do the Cottinghams immediately build next door to the narrator?

4. How long after the miraculous surgery in "Based Upon a True Story" does the boy die?

5. What was the name of the actor who played Scrooge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the mini-series that Jim Timothy has produced?

2. Why is Jim Timothy interested in one of the church members?

3. What is Thaddeus Bristol's complaint about the performance at Sacred Heart Elementary?

4. How does the giving contest become gruesome in "Christmas Means Giving"?

5. What is the premise of "A Reindeer's Gift"?

6. What is the premise of 'Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol "?

7. What do the Cottingham's usually send out as a Christmas card?

8. What does Thaddeus Bristol see as the flaws in "A Reindeer's Gift" at Scottsfield Elementary?

9. What does the narrator discover happens to his sons after he gives them to the beggar?

10. Whose performance receives the only compliment from Thaddeus Bristol?

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