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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Lily's first book?
(a) "Trying to Grow."
(b) "Small Things."
(c) "Small Plates."
(d) "Big Mind in a Small Body."

2. What hotel does the family stay in when they return to the United States after Vienna?
(a) The Ritz.
(b) The Stanhope.
(c) A hotel the reader never learns the name of.
(d) The Goldwater Hotel.

3. Under what conditions will the owner sell the third hotel that Win wants to buy?
(a) That the prospective owners not be Jewish.
(b) None of these answers is correct.
(c) Both of these answers are correct.
(d) That he meet the prospective owners.

4. How did Freud lose his sight?
(a) By doing too many drugs.
(b) In experiments in a German death camp.
(c) By having someone splash acid in his face.
(d) He doesn't remember.

5. What is Egg's room like in the Vienna hotel?
(a) Huge but with no windows.
(b) Very small with no windows.
(c) Not very much floor space but very, very tall.
(d) Small but with a lot of windows.

6. How do the Berrys know the radicals are starting their kidnapping and hostage plot?
(a) They write them a really nice letter.
(b) One holds a gun to Win.
(c) The electricity and phone lines get cut.
(d) They just say so at dinner.

7. How does Franny let John know that the time has come for them to sleep together?
(a) She sends him a text message.
(b) She writes him an old-fashioned letter.
(c) She sends him an email.
(d) She calls, saying the time is finally right.

8. Who drives to see the property of the hotel Win wants to buy after he has lived in New York for a while?
(a) Frank and John.
(b) Lilly and John.
(c) Just Lilly.
(d) Lilly and Frank.

9. What does Frank major in at the local university?
(a) Economics.
(b) Literature.
(c) Math.
(d) Drama.

10. Who insists that the family learn about Vienna before they move there?
(a) Mary.
(b) Win.
(c) Franny.
(d) Frank.

11. Who do the radicals decide will drive their car bomb since Miss Miscarriage is dead?
(a) Win.
(b) Lilly.
(c) John.
(d) Freud.

12. For how many years does Win believe that his third hotel is up and operating?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

13. When they first meet, what does Susie think about how Franny has handled her own experience being raped?
(a) That she's just beginning to work on it.
(b) That she should be an example to others about how to handle it positively.
(c) That she has never really dealt with it.
(d) That she has handled it really, really well.

14. What does Win order at the bar he goes to with John, before they confront the radicals?
(a) His "usual."
(b) A beer.
(c) A gin and tonic.
(d) A Diet Coke.

15. Which bar do John and Win go to right before they confront the radicals?
(a) The Memphis Coffeehouse and Bar.
(b) The Metro.
(c) The Sacher Bar.
(d) The hotel bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Wrench" do?

2. Why is Egg nervous about moving to Vienna?

3. Who does John end up marrying?

4. Who is Fritz?

5. What is Miss Miscarriage doing the night John first kisses her?

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