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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. How does Alfred end up in the hospital?
(a) He catches influenza.
(b) He injures his knee and back.
(c) He faints.
(d) He is shot.

2. Nordstrom's secretary, Ms. Dietrich, has to leave after getting too drunk, ending what plans?
(a) To ask Nordstrom on a date.
(b) To make a toast to Nordstrom.
(c) To sleep with Nordstrom again.
(d) To quit her job.

3. Nordstrom tells Laura, Sonia, and Phillip that he plans to cash in his trip tickets and do what?
(a) Go on a vacation.
(b) Find a new job.
(c) Go to cooking school.
(d) Get remarried.

4. In the morning, Nordstrom gets ready to meet with Sarah and adds what to his boot?
(a) A straight razor.
(b) A screw driver.
(c) A gun.
(d) A cell phone.

5. Nordstrom tells the psychiatrist that he wants to be like who?
(a) Robin Hood.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) King Arthur.
(d) Peter Pan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sonia asks Nordstrom to visit her where?

2. Phillip talks philosophically about what?

3. What happens after Ludlow sends Decker to Helena for supplies?

4. What alerts Nordstrom to Berto's entrance?

5. Tristan goes to deliver some whiskey for a party at Alfred's house, hoping to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Phillip discuss philosophically that seems to upset Nordstrom?

2. How does Tristan receive the ship back from the British?

3. What takes place directly after Sonia's graduation?

4. How does Tristan spend seven years with his new wife?

5. What does Tristan do during the six years he spends at sea?

6. How does Isabel Two die?

7. What does Tristan do when Susannah says she plans on killing herself? How does this affect her?

8. How does this story end?

9. How does Tristan play a role in Susannah's suicide?

10. What does Nordstrom write in his diary?

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