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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. Where does Nordstrom follow Laura, where she and Sarah have been making frequent trips to snort cocaine?
(a) To a coat closet.
(b) To her bedroom.
(c) To a hotel room.
(d) To the restroom.

2. One Stab accompanies Tristan to the train station and gives Tristan what, which Tristan keeps until his death at age eighty-four?
(a) A book.
(b) A letter.
(c) A gun.
(d) His skinning knife.

3. Why is Susannah better?
(a) She has been put on strong medication.
(b) Tristan says he loves her.
(c) She is near Alfred.
(d) Only because Tristan's letter gives her false hope.

4. Where does Nordstrom want to be?
(a) With Laura again.
(b) On vacation with Sonia.
(c) Cooking in a restaurant by the ocean.
(d) Sitting on a beach chair staring at the ocean.

5. Tristan directs his grief into what?
(a) The repairs of the farmhouse.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The effort of breaking a difficult young stallion.
(d) His marriage to Susannah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the officers shoot their rifles into the air aimlessly?

2. After the graduation reception, Nordstrom tries to give Sonia what?

3. In the summer, Tristan makes imaginary plans with Susannah, but only wants what?

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

5. What habit does Nordstrom disclose?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What takes place when most of the people have left the dinner?

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

5. Why does Ludlow send One Stab to Helena?

6. What happens when Tristan comes down with dysentery?

7. Why does Tristan marry Susannah? How does Susannah seem to feel about him? How do you know this?

8. What does Nordstrom do to Berto?

9. What happens once Alfred arrives?

10. How does Isabel Two die?

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