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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take for Columbus to get back to normal?
(a) A month.
(b) A week.
(c) Two days.
(d) A day.

2. What is Aunt Sarah afraid will happen if she falls asleep?
(a) She will have a stroke.
(b) A burglar will come into the house.
(c) A rat will eat her.
(d) She will cease breathing.

3. Who dresses up as Zenas in this section?
(a) George Martin.
(b) James Thurber.
(c) John Lennon.
(d) Herman Thurber.

4. Who wrote the letter Thurber quotes from in this section?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His mother.
(c) Aunt Edith.
(d) Herman.

5. What is the only car Thurber says he is interested in?
(a) The Haddock.
(b) The Red Devil.
(c) The Hammer.
(d) The Sky Blue.

6. What is the title of this chapter?
(a) Who is Buck?
(b) The Joke.
(c) The Mild Mannered Boar.
(d) More Alarms at Night.

7. How is Briggs Breal related to Thurber?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His second cousin.
(d) His first cousin.

8. What do the police find in the house?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A dead body.
(c) Broken plates.
(d) Nothing.

9. What does Roy shout in his father's ear?
(a) The aliens are coming.
(b) Left, right, left, right. Halt.
(c) Buck, your time has come.
(d) What is that coming through the door.

10. What destroys the REO?
(a) A lion.
(b) Another car.
(c) A machine gun.
(d) A fork of lightning.

11. What are the residents worried will happen to them if they stay in Columbo?
(a) They will be shot.
(b) They be drafted.
(c) They will be electrocuted.
(d) They will drown.

12. What does someone yell in the theater?
(a) Water.
(b) Fire.
(c) Rape.
(d) Dam.

13. What does Thurber say Old Aunt Melissa Beal can whistle like?
(a) A dog.
(b) A tin whistle.
(c) A train.
(d) A man.

14. Who does Thurber recall in chapter six?
(a) The popes.
(b) The teachers.
(c) The munsters.
(d) The immortals.

15. Who drives a Red Devil?
(a) Ladybird Larry.
(b) Get Ready Man.
(c) Finish Fish Man.
(d) Lazy Boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father think will one day happen to the REO?

2. What do the family use to knock the grandfather unconscious?

3. Who do the police hear in the attic?

4. What continent did Zenas travel to?

5. What does Father do at 9.30pm?

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