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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 bookstore did David take Shirley to after working out?
(a) The Joshua Tree.
(b) The Sun Sense.
(c) Barnes and Noble.
(d) The Bodhi Tree.

2. What was the name of Johannsen's wife?
(a) Ambrose.
(b) Turid.
(c) Corinne.
(d) Trudie.

3. Why did Shirley and Gerry have to hide their relationship?
(a) His career.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her career.
(d) His wife.

4. What did Shirley wonder about while sitting in the waiting room at Johannsen's?
(a) Whether reporters were present.
(b) If she should tell Gerry about the experience.
(c) Why the others were there.
(d) How old he would be.

5. Upon arriving in Stockholm, who did Shirley have dinner with?
(a) Gerry.
(b) Ambres.
(c) David.
(d) An old friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Katerina claimed that Johannsen's personality was what?

2. What did Ambres say about God?

3. What did Gerry and Shirley do the night she came to visit him for the convention?

4. In Stockholm, Shirley realized that Gerry needed to have what?

5. How did the group know Ambres had left?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Shirley spend time thinking about writing as a method that cleared her father's depression?

2. As Clifford Odets lay on his death bed, what desire did he speak of to Shirley?

3. What effect did Shirley's friends claim the visits to Johannsen had had on their lives?

4. Shirley used her first professional paycheck to build an apartment. What does this tell the reader about Shirley?

5. Why did Shirley pretend that she has never heard of Johannsen when her friends invite her to see him?

6. What did Shirley think about while waiting to meet with Johannsen?

7. Why was Shirley fascinated by the idea of mediums?

8. After Shirley's conversation with Gerry in Stockholm, she realized what about his character?

9. Why did David take Shirley to the Bodhi Tree bookstore?

10. How did Shirley feel about the constant deception required of her relationship with Gerry?

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