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

2. Who has accompanied Tristram to France in the past?
(a) Walter and Mrs. Shandy.
(b) Julia and Trim.
(c) Trim and Obidiah.
(d) Walter, Toby and Trim.

3. In Volume 8, which character makes a battle plan with Toby to approach the Widow Wadham?
(a) Trim.
(b) Susannah.
(c) Walter.
(d) Tristram.

4. Who plans on spying on Toby through a keyhole?
(a) Tristram.
(b) Trim.
(c) Mrs. Shandy.
(d) Bridget.

5. Who does Tristram consult for advice in Volume 7?
(a) Uncle Toby.
(b) Eugenuis.
(c) The reader.
(d) Yorick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lieutenant Le Fever?

2. What does Walter Shandy decide to write in Volume 5?

3. Where does Tristram find his travel notes?

4. Which commandment does Yorick ask Trim to repeat?

5. Who is Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What position does Toby recommend Billy Le Fever assume in the Shandy household?

2. How is Tristram injured at the age of five?

3. What unusual friend does Tristram make in Lyon?

4. How does Toby become Billy Le Fever's guardian?

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

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

7. What irony exists in Walter Shandy's attempt to write a child-rearing book?

8. What are the "beds of justice"?

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

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

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