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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. Lionel finds Frank
(a) By torturing the giant until he gets the information out of him.
(b) By accidentally tripping over him in the dark.
(c) By yelling and listening for Frank to yell back.
(d) By listening to the headphones until he hears his own footsteps.

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

3. All of the Minna Men
(a) Dislike Julia.
(b) Are gay.
(c) Want Julia.
(d) Have girlfriends.

4. The parentheses around the title of Chapter 4 indicate
(a) An aside.
(b) That it is not important information.
(c) That the chapter represents unconscious thought.
(d) That someone else is thinking it.

5. Loomis' tendencies toward laziness and imprecision cause Lionel to
(a) Suffer more than his usual number of symtoms.
(b) Slap him.
(c) Dislike him.
(d) Lecture him.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the stakeout at the beginning of the story, Lionel and Gilbert share

2. Lionel describes the effect of drugs on his constellation of behaviors as

3. (Tourette Dreams) immediately follows

4. Gilbert is tolerant of Lionel because

5. The door of Lionel's apartment was riddled by dents because

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the opening line of the joke Lionel tells Frank?

2. At St. Vincent's Home for Boys, where did Lionel spend all of his time and why?

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

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

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

6. Give an example of how Minna used people to mark his territory.

7. What is Julia's reaction when Lionel stops by to tell her about Frank?

8. 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).

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

10. What did Lionel do when Detective Seminole asked him about Matricardi and Rockaforte?

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