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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 appears to be bright, polite, and caring, but has strange and perverse urges?
(a) Avril.
(b) Mario.
(c) Joelle.
(d) Hal.

2. What grade did James Incandenza assign to his marriage?
(a) A+.
(b) B.
(c) F.
(d) C-.

3. What does Lenz compare recovery groups to?
(a) A quiet home.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A cult.
(d) A bank.

4. How old is Mario turning in Chapter 56?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 22.
(d) 20.

5. Who does Mario interview, who says they have a hard time believing Hal will be punished?
(a) Joelle.
(b) Avril.
(c) Millicent.
(d) LaMont.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Don feel in his sobriety?

2. Who does Kate have trouble dealing with?

3. What is the nickname assigned to those who have been sober for decades?

4. What do Hal's dreams appear to show that he is afraid of?

5. What is the name of Hal's tennis instructor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of impression do you get from Avril's character?

2. What does Hal think of Avril and Charles possibly being related?

3. What parallels does Wallace draw between the Entertainment and drugs?

4. Why is Don so interested in Joelle?

5. Why did Avril have an affair during her marriage to James?

6. What problems does Don Gately have with sobriety?

7. What role does the theme of suicide play in the novel?

8. Why does Hal begin to watch his father's films?

9. What does Eric Clipperton's death show the students at Enfield?

10. What is an example of James being a genius but inability to deal with real life matters?

(see the answer keys)

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