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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 Minna Men first meet Frank's brother, Gerard at
(a) At the Zendo.
(b) They never meet him.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) Their mother's home during Christmas dinner.

2. In 1979, when Frank begins picking up the boys, he is
(a) Ignorant and rude.
(b) Twenty-five years old.
(c) Married, but living with his mother.
(d) Still a boy himself.

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

4. Lionel describes the effect of drugs on his constellation of behaviors as
(a) Snowflake land.
(b) Rama-lama-ding-dong.
(c) Wheels within wheels.
(d) Dimming the world.

5. When Lionel invites the police officer to get a sandwich with him, it suggests
(a) He is trying to bribe the police officer.
(b) He has information to share with the police officer.
(c) He wants to let the police officer in on his favorite sandwich place.
(d) He doesn't want the police officer to know where he lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Frank leaves the building, he is being escorted by

2. The police officer continually calls Lionel

3. The symptoms of Lionel's disease are called

4. In the phrase, "in Tourette Dreams you shed your tics or your tics shed you," it is implied that

5. After leaving St. Vincent's, Lionel lived

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Frank's instruction over the wire when the conversation in the Zendo ends?

2. Describe what happens in the penguin incident with Lionel and Gilbert.

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 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).

5. 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.

6. Explain how Lionel finds Frank.

7. Frank's nickname for Lionel, Freakshow, suggests what?

8. What is the significance of the chapter, Tourette Dreams being composed of just one line?

9. What did Minna give the boys by removing them from St. Vincents?

10. Discuss Lionel's disposition with respect to his condition.

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