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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Krebs want most of all?
(a) To live without any consequences
(b) A car
(c) To move to California
(d) To take a cruise

2. What does Dr. Adams do in his bedroom?
(a) Reads a book
(b) Loads and unloads his shotgun
(c) Changes his clothes
(d) Takes a nap

3. Why does Uncle George not accompany Nick and his father back to their camp that night?
(a) He has to go to work in the morning
(b) He is tired of fishing and sleeping outside
(c) He is too shaken by what he has witnessed
(d) He is too sick to stay overnight in the woods

4. What does Nick call his friend, Rinaldi, in the Memoir?
(a) A disappointing audience
(b) A poor excuse for a man
(c) The best friend he has ever had
(d) A man among men

5. Who is the unnamed narrator of the story?
(a) A Buddhist monk
(b) A Hungarian gypsy
(c) A French waiter
(d) An American officer

6. How long has Nick's nurse stayed on night duty to care for him?
(a) 3 months
(b) 3 years
(c) 3 weeks
(d) 3 days

7. What does Nick's father call the floating logs?
(a) A nuisance
(b) Jetsam
(c) Kindling
(d) Flotsam

8. What is Nick's father's profession?
(a) Minister
(b) Lawyer
(c) Doctor
(d) Accountant

9. Why does Ad get mad at Nick?
(a) He does not give him the knife
(b) He does not have any cigarettes
(c) He insults his mother
(d) He does not have any whiskey

10. Where does Krebs live?
(a) Oregon
(b) Ohio
(c) Oklahoma
(d) New Mexico

11. What does Nick's father hire some local Indians to do?
(a) Paint his house
(b) Till a new garden
(c) Cut logs that have drifted onto his property
(d) Plant some new trees

12. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?
(a) Kindling
(b) Zeus' toothpicks
(c) A nuisance
(d) Stolen property

13. Where did Bugs meet Ad?
(a) A homeless shelter
(b) In jail
(c) Detroit
(d) In school

14. What shocking event occurs this night for Nick, his father and Uncle George?
(a) There is a lynching in town
(b) The country goes to war with Japan
(c) A man commits suicide by slitting his throat
(d) The local forest catches fire

15. What is a quai?
(a) A dock
(b) A flock of quails
(c) A loud noise
(d) A legal term

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nick's father not do?

2. What makes Krebs' mother cry?

3. What job did the narrator have in the war?

4. A U.S. ship called the Simpson is in a ______________ state.

5. What is Nick's mood?

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