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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thurber call the contraption that Mother uses to call in Muggs?
(a) A whip machine.
(b) An echo box.
(c) A drum rattler.
(d) A thunder machine.

2. Who does Mrs. Doody think Father is?
(a) Antichrist.
(b) Faust.
(c) Ted Bundy.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. Who calls Thurber the main trouble with this university?
(a) Proffessor Davis.
(b) General Tompkins.
(c) General Littlefield.
(d) Prodessor Bassum.

4. What problems does Mugs have shortly before his death?
(a) He starts seeing things.
(b) He starts hearing voices.
(c) He goes blind.
(d) He goes death.

5. What war is raging in this chapter?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War Two.
(d) World War One.

6. What does Vashti have a gift for?
(a) Finding lost objects.
(b) Taming animals.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Healing children.

7. What does Thurber say Muggs turns mice into?
(a) Rats.
(b) Killers.
(c) Pets.
(d) Gloves.

8. What kind of dog is the dog the garage workers dislike?
(a) A sausage dog.
(b) A poodle.
(c) A cocker spaniel.
(d) A bull terrier.

9. In which film did Barrymore play a Russian monk?
(a) Rasputin and the Empress.
(b) Crime and Punishment.
(c) The Devils.
(d) The Idiot.

10. What does Thurber say not even Lord Jim can run away from?
(a) His wife.
(b) His dream world.
(c) His love life.
(d) His own special discomfiture.

11. What does Thurber say the agricultural student is puzzled by?
(a) The radio.
(b) The typewriter.
(c) The newspapers.
(d) The television.

12. Whose home does Thurber mention in this chapter?
(a) Luke Seaman's.
(b) Horatio Alger's.
(c) David Priest's.
(d) James Stanley's.

13. What kind of animal does Muggs refuse to kill?
(a) Cats.
(b) Rats.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Mice.

14. What does Professor Bassum teach?
(a) Biology.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Economics.

15. What writer does Thurber reference in this section?
(a) Joseph Conrad.
(b) Jack London.
(c) Roman Polanski.
(d) Ernest Hemmingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war is ending in this chapter?

2. Which member of Vashti's love triangle proves to be imaginary?

3. What has the grandfather become entangled in in Shepherd?

4. What country does Thurber visit one summer?

5. Why can't Thurber enter the army?

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