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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Story 1, what flutters close to the narrator's face?
(a) A yellow bird.
(b) A noisy bee.
(c) A colorful butterfly.
(d) An ugly moth.

2. According to the narrator, he and the Salesman developed a dangerous cynical camaraderie beginning in ________.
(a) Texas.
(b) New York.
(c) Florida.
(d) Alaska.

3. Where does the police officer take the hitchhiking narrator following the car accident?
(a) To jail.
(b) To the narrator's house.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To a shelter.

4. The Bride of Death in Story 2 is a nickname the narrator gives to ________.
(a) Misty.
(b) Richard.
(c) Brittany.
(d) Stan.

5. In Story 5, what offer does Wayne make to the narrator?
(a) Wayne wants to buy the narrator's car.
(b) To go to work with him.
(c) Wayne wants to be roommates with the narrator.
(d) To open up a business together.

6. Why is McInnes not at the hospital in the beginning of Story 4?
(a) McInnes doesn't want to go.
(b) Dundun refuses to let McInnes go.
(c) Jack Hotel crashed the car.
(d) Nobody has a car to take McInnes.

7. In Story 2, who is the woman at the narrator's "new companion's" home referring to when she says, "If you don't take him off our street I'm calling the police"?
(a) Richard.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Tom.
(d) The new companion.

8. In his flashback, the narrator in Story 1 reveals that earlier in the day the ________ and him had swept down into ________.
(a) The Student / Savannah.
(b) Salesman / Kansas City.
(c) The Teacher / Chinatown.
(d) The Indian / Forks.

9. How far did the family promise to take the hitchhiking narrator?
(a) Half way.
(b) To the next exit.
(c) Just to Boulder.
(d) All the way.

10. What is the narrator and his girlfriend's drug of choice in Story 5?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Speed.

11. At the end of Story 5, the narrator says, "Your husband will beat you with a(n) ________ and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my ________."
(a) Tire iron / wife.
(b) Extension cord / mother.
(c) Belt / friend.
(d) Baseball bat / sister.

12. How does the narrator's "new companion" communicate in Story 2?
(a) By sign language.
(b) In pig-latin.
(c) By song.
(d) With pictures.

13. According to the narrator in Story 2, who sold him a gun?
(a) Frank.
(b) Thatcher.
(c) Stan.
(d) Dylan.

14. The narrator states that ________ is like a railroad club car that had somehow run itself off the tracks into a swamp of time where it awaited the blows of the wrecking ball.
(a) Money.
(b) The Vine.
(c) Wayne.
(d) His life.

15. In Story 5, what does the narrator say his car did not need?
(a) A key.
(b) Exhaust pipe.
(c) Brakes.
(d) Tires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does the car accident in Story 1 occur?

2. The narrator states in Story 1 that by the sweet voices of the family inside the car, he knew ________.

3. What is the name of the bar the narrator is at in Story 3?

4. How old is the narrator's child in Story 2?

5. What type of party is Jack Hotel throwing for himself at the bar in Story 3?

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