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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe decide a particular day is New Year's Day?
(a) He has counted 365 days.
(b) He just felt like having a holiday.
(c) He feels fireworks.
(d) He has had 4765 baths.

2. What does Joe do when he sees Christ in the desert?
(a) Runs away from him.
(b) Slaps him in the face.
(c) Begs to die.
(d) Throws himself down and cries.

3. What does Joe compare himself to now, in the hospital?
(a) A prisoner.
(b) A corpse.
(c) An angel.
(d) A medical miracle.

4. To whom does Joe compare himself?
(a) His brother.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Other circus exhibits.
(d) No one.

5. At what age does Kareen remain in Joe's mind?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Sixteen.

6. Why did Bonnie Flannigan say hello to Joe?
(a) She's looking for customers.
(b) She thinks he's good looking.
(c) She recognized him from Shale City.
(d) She mistook him for somone else.

7. What is Joe's concern about asking for something?
(a) That they will misunderstand.
(b) That the government is already spending huge sums to keep him alive.
(c) That it is silly to expect anything in his situation.
(d) That they will refuse.

8. What does Flannigan say will happen if Joe sticks with her?
(a) They'll both wear diamonds.
(b) She'll find him a good wife.
(c) He'll not catch any diseases.
(d) He'll never lack for sex.

9. What is the first question asked of Joe?
(a) "How are you?"
(b) "Where do you want to go?"
(c) "What is your name?"
(d) "What do you want?"

10. What does Joe imagine the day nurse to look like?
(a) Medium height, blond and older.
(b) Large, dark haired and young.
(c) Middle-aged, gray-haired, and large.
(d) Small and young.

11. How does Joe feel after the man tells him what he says in question #175?
(a) He feels supported.
(b) He is hopeful.
(c) He is joyfully surprised.
(d) He has no hope.

12. What does Joe think about his teachers?
(a) He remembers they thought he was dumb.
(b) They never taught him anything.
(c) He wonders what they would think of him now.
(d) He learned a lot from them.

13. How long does Joe think he's been unaware of time?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) He doesn't know.
(d) Three years.

14. What does Joe ask?
(a) For death.
(b) For them to contact his mother.
(c) For them to reconsider.
(d) To be let out of the hospital to fend for himself.

15. What did Lucky survive in America?
(a) The Chicago fire.
(b) The eruption of St. Helena.
(c) A tidal wave in Crescent City.
(d) The San Francisco earthquake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Joe say Americans are different from Frenchmen or Englishmen?

2. What was the name of the first girl with whom Joe had sex ?

3. What does Joe feel as the man prods him?

4. What does Joe decide he needs to offer?

5. Who comes in with the nurse?

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