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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does Arthur feel when he sees that the retreat manager's car has a television in its dashboard?
(a) Despair.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Alarm.
(d) Awe.

2. What happens to Arthur's all-important tax form when he leaves France?
(a) Javier mails it.
(b) The hotel clerk mails it.
(c) Javier tears it up.
(d) It gets thrown away.

3. What natural event occurs that traps the group inside the Bedouin encampment?
(a) A flash flood.
(b) A sandstorm.
(c) A heat wave.
(d) A tornado.

4. How does Arthur feel upon finding out that he has booked himself into a Christian retreat center, rather than the Buddhist one he had imagined?
(a) Wary.
(b) Deflated.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Excited.

5. While Bastian is contemptuous of art and literature, he follows avidly the events within what arena?
(a) Politics.
(b) Celebrity gossip.
(c) Music.
(d) Sports.

6. When Arthur's neighbor sees him climb through his apartment window, she is not alarmed since "she knows he is not a thief" and is "clearly just" (108) a what?
(a) An oaf.
(b) A Bavarian.
(c) A fool.
(d) An American.

7. How many days away is Arthur's birthday once he arrives in Morocco?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

8. The narrator describes Javier as smelling of cigarettes and what else?
(a) Vanilla.
(b) Car exhaust.
(c) Lavender.
(d) Garlic.

9. When Robert says that poetry "kills you now" (106), what does he say that poetry is later?
(a) Food.
(b) Trash.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Immortality.

10. When Bastian refuses to take medicine for his fever and Arthur puts on Bastian's favorite television show so that Bastian can play a drinking game with his medicine, what action on the show does Arthur tell Bastian he has to drink to each time he sees it occur on the show?
(a) Every time a blond comes onscreen.
(b) Every time characters talk with their hands.
(c) Every time the lovers remove their glasses to kiss.
(d) Every time there is a commercial interruption.

11. Arthur sarcastically thanks life when he sees a book by what author by his bed in the Bedouin encampment?
(a) Deepak Chopra.
(b) Robert Brownburn.
(c) Finley Dwyer.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

12. At whose suggestion does Arthur attend the writer's retreat in India?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Carlos.
(c) Javier.
(d) Freddy.

13. Arthur begins his first lecture in Germany by quoting which author?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Proust.
(d) Chekhov.

14. Zohra tries to get Arthur and Lewis to make a pact with her to give up romance and to take what other action?
(a) To write to one another.
(b) To get fat.
(c) To meet in Marrakech every year.
(d) To quit Facebook.

15. What part of his body does Arthur fracture as he is running after the dog who steals his blue suit in India?
(a) His ankle.
(b) His arm.
(c) His finger.
(d) His nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what material is Arthur's cottage at the writer's retreat crafted?

2. How does Arthur answer when Finley insults his personality and his writing in one fell swoop?

3. What adverb does the narrator use to describe the way in which the camel carries Arthur across the desert?

4. The narrator describes which character as "the kind of woman who would run an international spy ring" (168)?

5. When Arthur shouts to Lewis "This isn't a birthday!" (108), what does he say it is instead?

(see the answer keys)

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