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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 assigned to make the deal to buy the hotel for Howard Hughes?
(a) Henry Hallows.
(b) Noah Dietrich.
(c) Inez Cross Pickett.
(d) Michael Raye.

2. How long were Cicero and Jacson romantically involved?
(a) One year.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Ten years.

3. What is one thing Howard Hughes used to share with his mother?
(a) A love of reading.
(b) A mania for cleaning.
(c) A love of hamburgers.
(d) A fear of water.

4. Who is Lazarus's wife?
(a) Henrietta.
(b) Maria.
(c) Lisa.
(d) Gina.

5. Who fixes Cicero's car for him?
(a) Tony Carter.
(b) Ben Huxton.
(c) Frank Finnow.
(d) John Henley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Howard Hughes's father build a big mansion?

2. Where is Ed actually from?

3. Who is Lazarus's exasperating aunt?

4. When did Inez Cross Pickett die?

5. What is Ed's wife doing when Ed gets back to the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lazarus think news of his beating J.C. Stokes will be all over town after he goes to the police station?

2. Why does Ed Phelps go to the Carnegie Deli in the story When We All Get to Heaven?

3. How does Lazarus start to feel after beginning to beat J.C. Stokes?

4. Why does Howard Hughes buy Bradham's motel in Tim's Creek?

5. Why does Howard Hughes ask Inez Cross Chasten to work for him in the story titled The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks?

6. What does Lazarus compare his Aunt Tensy's interactions with her family to?

7. Why does Inez Cross Chasten choose not to tell her husband, ever, about Howard Hughes's proposition to her?

8. How does Ed Phelps's musical interaction with Idol affect him later that same day?

9. Why does Lazarus turn himself in to the police station in the first place?

10. Why does Inez Cross Chasten refuse to cook for Howard Hughes?

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