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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is Muggs particularly nasty?
(a) In the mornings.
(b) Before bed.
(c) In the afternoon.
(d) After dinner.

2. What does Thurber say he dislikes doing while naked?
(a) Having a shower.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Answering questions.
(d) Singing.

3. What does Mrs. Robertson think the cricket in the basement is watching?
(a) The devil.
(b) Death.
(c) God.
(d) Jesus.

4. What does Thurber say he feels like after riding on the roller coaster, even when he is laying down?
(a) Falling.
(b) Flying.
(c) Spinning.
(d) Floating.

5. What does Thurber say he lacks the proper perspective to do in his middle years?
(a) Converse.
(b) Draw.
(c) Write.
(d) Entertain.

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

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

8. What has the grandfather become entangled in in Shepherd?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) Fishing wire.
(c) A fishing net.
(d) A thorn bush.

9. What is General Littlefield doing when Thurber enters his office?
(a) Kissing his secretary.
(b) Swatting a fly.
(c) Playing darts.
(d) Cutting his nostril hair.

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

11. What word best describes the Scarlet Tornado ride?
(a) Spiralling.
(b) Hair-raising.
(c) Trudging.
(d) Lame.

12. What happens when Muggs jumps onto the mantelpiece?
(a) A picture falls on top of him.
(b) It collapses.
(c) The wall cracks.
(d) It cracks.

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

14. Where does Jeannie deliver her seventh puppy?
(a) In the subway.
(b) A Brooklyn housing estate.
(c) A New York City street corner.
(d) In a car park.

15. What subject can Thurber not pass?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) English literature.
(c) Biology.
(d) Geography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dog is Jeannie?

2. What does Cave Canem mean?

3. What Joseph Conrad character does Thurber reference in this section?

4. What do people swallow to avoid the army?

5. What signals for the tourists to get back to the ship?

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