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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. The more obvious symptoms of Lionel's disease are
(a) Counting, yelling and swallowing.
(b) Blurting out words in his sleep and snoring.
(c) Tapping, clapping and multiple personalities.
(d) Touching, counting and repeating words.

2. The parentheses around the fragmented sentence pieces in Chapter 4 represents
(a) A hug.
(b) The reader's need to pause between each portion.
(c) The atmosphere of sleep.
(d) The unconscious realization that someone is near.

3. As Gilbert explains to Tony and Danny what happened to Frank, Danny keeps saying
(a) I'm in charge now.
(b) Don't talk about Frank like that.
(c) One of us should call his Mom.
(d) Somebody's going to have to tell Julia.

4. When Lionel returns from seeing Julia, he gets a phone call with news that
(a) Gilbert has been arrested.
(b) The police officer needs to ask him more questions.
(c) Julia has returned.
(d) The Minna Men have a new job.

5. In the phrase, "in Tourette Dreams you shed your tics or your tics shed you," it is implied that
(a) Tics are not very friendly.
(b) Tics involve shedding.
(c) Tics change at night.
(d) Tics have control over the person and not vice versa.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of the story is

2. The hospital Frank tells Gilbert to drive to is

3. When Frank says, "Don't tug the boat," he means

4. After their work is done, Frank often gives the boys

5. At the hospital, the doctors tell Lionel and Gilbert

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Lionel's mission in the story?

2. What does Lionel mean when he says that a person with Tourette's can be the Invisible Man?

3. Explain the difference between a real car service and L & L.

4. Why was Lionel visiting all of Frank's old haunts?

5. What does Detective Seminole think of Lionel?

6. What is implied by the sentence: In Tourette dreams you shed your tics or your tics shed you and you go with them, astonished to leave yourself behind).

7. What is inferred in the sentence: "We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centerpiece, as incoherent as a verbless sentence.

8. Discuss what Lionel means when he says, It (meaning Minna's influence) changed us as a group. We developed a certain collective ego, a presence apart at the Home.

9. What would a typical day working for Frank entail when the boys first started with him?

10. Describe Frank's condition when they find him.

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