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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jenny say may someday happen?
(a) Oliver's father may die and Oliver will regret it.
(b) Oliver will have a child that feels about him the way he feels about his father.
(c) Jenny will divorce Oliver if he doesn't become nicer to his parents.
(d) Oliver and his father will reconcile.

2. What explanation does Oliver give his boss about his situation at home?
(a) He tells him the complete truth and breaks down crying.
(b) He tells him a partial truth.
(c) None.
(d) He tells him that Jenny is having an affair.

3. How does Oliver satisfy both of their curiosity?
(a) He makes up names of people ahead of him.
(b) He finds out that a computer glitch misplaced him in the ranking.
(c) He learns who is ahead of him.
(d) He learns he nudged out two women for the top position.

4. About what is Jenny curious?
(a) How he managed to be number one when he was working and studying.
(b) Why he isn't either near the top or bottom instead of in the boring middle.
(c) Why he is near the bottom of his class.
(d) Who is ahead of Oliver in his class.

5. What does Oliver take over?
(a) The laundry.
(b) Walking the dog.
(c) Cleaning up after dinner.
(d) Nothing, he's too busy with work.

6. What does Oliver tell his father the reason is for needing the money?
(a) He hasn't asked his father for money.
(b) He tells him his car has broken down.
(c) He doesn't tell him any reason.
(d) He tells him he lost a bet at the races.

7. What happens while Oliver is holding Jenny?
(a) She whispers in his ear that she wants him to marry again.
(b) She dies.
(c) She goes to sleep.
(d) She tells him she thinks she is getting better.

8. How could the firm be described where Oliver is to work?
(a) An emphasis on corporate law.
(b) Prestigious and civil liberties-oriented.
(c) Ambulance chasers.
(d) Very oriented towards money-making cases.

9. What does Phil do when he learns of Jenny's illness?
(a) Moves into the apartment with Oliver and takes care of Oliver and visits Jenny.
(b) Flys to South America to find a cure about which he has read.
(c) Becomes so despondent that he cannot visit right away.
(d) Goes into a rage of denial and hangs up on Oliver.

10. What does Jenny try goading Oliver into doing?
(a) Getting so mad he divorces her.
(b) Refusing the invitation for him but letting her go.
(c) Calling and personally refusing the invitation.
(d) Accepting the invitation.

11. After a short while, what does Oliver decide he would like?
(a) A child.
(b) A puppy.
(c) More vacation time.
(d) A weekend home in the Poconos.

12. How might their spending be described?
(a) Frugal.
(b) All out.
(c) They buy what they want, but not to excess.
(d) They spend nothing as they have no money.

13. Who calls Oliver's parents and for what reason?
(a) Jenny calls to invite them to lunch.
(b) Phil calls to talk to Oliver Barrett, III.
(c) Oliver calls to refuse the invitation.
(d) Jenny calls to refuse the invitation.

14. What is Jenny's problem?
(a) She has endometriosus.
(b) She is trying too hard.
(c) She has an incurable type of leukemia.
(d) Her eggs do not descend.

15. What is the result of his ranking?
(a) He gets some offers of jobs, but not his first choices.
(b) He is offered many good jobs.
(c) He gets the dregs of the offerings for a job.
(d) He must figure out where he is by talking to others in his class.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where does Oliver buy airline tickets?

2. What does Jenny say in jest that they would name a boy child?

3. What does Oliver join?

4. What are Oliver's instructions to the doctor?

5. What does Oliver do for the first time in his adult life?

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