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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. What color is Sailor’s felt hat?
(a) White
(b) Blue
(c) Gray
(d) Green

2. In literature, what refers to the inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces?
(a) Protagonist
(b) Catalyst
(c) Conflict
(d) Antagony

3. What term refers to the main character of a literary narrative?
(a) Catalyst
(b) Protagonist
(c) Degenerate
(d) Antagonist

4. After his meeting with the doctor, what does Carl ask to evaluate photographs of?
(a) Monkeys
(b) Dogs
(c) Young boys
(d) Pinup girls

5. What time did Hauser and O’Brien walk in on William in his hotel room?
(a) 6 am
(b) 8 am
(c) 11 am
(d) 10 am

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sets the girl from the theater troupe on fire?

2. What term refers to a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?

3. Who is trying to have his case heard in Chapter 16?

4. Where does the Lieutenant tell Hauser to go to do his pickup?

5. Where did William get into the habit of using a regular syringe for his shots?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the setting of “A.J.’s Annual Party” relate to “Hassan’s Rumpus Room”?

2. Where is the Sailor in the beginning of “Coke Bugs”?

3. Where does the Sailor take the boy in “The Exterminator Does a Good Job”? Why?

4. Why is Carl Peterson called for a doctor’s appointment in “The Examination”? Who sees him?

5. What leads to William Lee shooting Hauser and O’Brien?

6. Where is Queens Plaza located? How does this setting relate to the other settings in the novel?

7. Why is William Lee unable to get his case heard in “The County Clerk”?

8. What allegorical elements are seen in “Ordinary Men and Women”?

9. What happens after Carl falls asleep in the doctor’s office in “The Examination”?

10. What shift takes place in the plot structure of the novel in “Hauser and O’Brien”?

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