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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ailment does the man who enters the bar in One for the Road have?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Frostbite.
(c) Hives.
(d) Chicken pox.

2. What does Johnny's mother ask him to sneak her sometimes?
(a) Her journal.
(b) Powerful painkillers.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) Heroin.

3. Who does Harold expect will come to mow his lawn?
(a) A professional.
(b) A naked man.
(c) The boy who mowed his lawn before.
(d) A teenager.

4. Why does Vicky honk the car horn?
(a) Because the cornfields have come to life and attack the car.
(b) Because a bunch of kids are converging on the car, attempting to attack.
(c) Because the police officers discover them.
(d) Because she is impatient and wants to leave.

5. What do people think when they see the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers?
(a) That he is stupid.
(b) That he is rich.
(c) That he is in love.
(d) That he is insane.

6. What does Larry find out happened to his sister?
(a) She is a showgirl.
(b) She committed suicide.
(c) She divorced her husband.
(d) She was murdered.

7. Why did Katrina let go when Larry told her to even though she didn't know what he was planning?
(a) Because she knew he called their father.
(b) Because she knew he had another ladder ready.
(c) Because she knew he was piling hay underneath her.
(d) Because she trusted him.

8. What is the young man whom Elizabeth meets at the beginning of I Know What You Need convinced of?
(a) That her roommate is in love with him.
(b) That she is really in love with him.
(c) That he knows exactly what she needs.
(d) That he knows what his roommate needs.

9. When does Norris' trouble start?
(a) When he falls in love with a client.
(b) When he starts dealing drugs.
(c) When he threatens a mobster.
(d) When he falls off the ledge.

10. What is Morrison's wife's reaction to learning about the Quitters, Inc. program?
(a) She does not care.
(b) She is furious.
(c) She is uncertain.
(d) She is supportive.

11. What is the consequence of Morrison cheating his first time on the program to quit smoking?
(a) His son will receive an electric shock.
(b) He will recieve an electric shock.
(c) His daughter will recieve an electric shock.
(d) His wife will recieve an electric shock.

12. How did the first strawberry spring end?
(a) The storm blew in and the fog went away.
(b) The fog continued to grow.
(c) The storm came.
(d) The strawberries died.

13. What does the narrator of Strawberry Spring suspect?
(a) That his wife is the killer.
(b) That Springheel Jack still exists.
(c) That he is the killer.
(d) That his old college roommate is the killer.

14. In The Woman in the Room, what is Johnny's mother dying of?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Fever.
(c) Frostbite.
(d) A6.

15. What theme is The Lawnmower Man based on?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Romance.
(d) Suspsense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Larry find waiting for him when he returns home in The Last Rung on the Ladder?

2. What does Larry think back on in The Last Rung of the Ladder?

3. What does the young man in The Man Who Loved Flowers stop to purchase?

4. What location does the man in One for the Road say he left his wife and daughter near?

5. Why does Harold decide to hire someone to mow his lawn?

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