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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. What concern does Widow Wadham express about Toby Shandy in Volume 8?
(a) His conversational abilities.
(b) The extent of his groin wound.
(c) His finances.
(d) His intelligence.

2. Who explains to Toby that he is in love?
(a) Tristram.
(b) Mrs. Shandy.
(c) Walter.
(d) Susannah.

3. Where does Tristram find his travel notes?
(a) Wadded up in the street.
(b) Crumpled up under a lady's hat.
(c) In the donkey's feed sack.
(d) In his back pocket.

4. What does the commissary accidentally damage in Volume 7?
(a) Tristram's shoes.
(b) Tristram's breeches.
(c) Tristram's carriage.
(d) Tristram's notes.

5. What are the "beds of justice"?
(a) The couches in the parlor.
(b) The flowerbeds.
(c) Walter's law books.
(d) Walter's bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual friend does Tristram make in Lyon?

2. In Chapter 1 of Volume 5, what subject does Tristram discuss?

3. What does Susannah burn in Volume 6?

4. How does Tristram escape death?

5. What concern does Tristram voice in Chapter 1 of Volume 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tristram decide to travel abroad in Volume 7?

2. Who is Lieutenant Le Fever?

3. How does Walter Shandy react to Tristram's injury in Volume 5?

4. Describe the farcical nature of the story of the abbess and the novice.

5. Why does Tristram's mother eavesdrop on Walter and Toby's conversation in Volume 5?

6. What difficulty does Tristram encounter in Lyon?

7. How does Toby react to the end of the war?

8. Why do Toby and Trim temporarily move in with Widow Wadham?

9. Why does Walter Shandy write Toby a letter in Volume 8?

10. Why does Trim take responsibility for Tristram's injury in Volume 5?

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