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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Man in Black pour into two wine goblets?
(a) Novocaine drops.
(b) Sugarcane powder.
(c) Iodine drops.
(d) Iocane powder.

2. As a child, the author was what?
(a) A loner who did not excel in sports.
(b) A bubbly child who played the banjo.
(c) An active, social child involved in theater and sports.
(d) A painfully shy child who loved math and science.

3. When Buttercup takes Horse out for a ride and ponders her impending marriage, she is approached by whom?
(a) The Count.
(b) A man who looks like the farm boy.
(c) Her parents.
(d) Three strangers.

4. As the kidnappers start climbing the Cliffs of Insanity, what happens to the boat?
(a) It crashes into the rocks and is destroyed.
(b) It drifts away.
(c) It sinks.
(d) It's captured by pirates.

5. When Humperdinck demands that Buttercup marry him, he tells her that he doesn't want her love and will give her what?
(a) Any horse she wants.
(b) None in return.
(c) Complete privacy.
(d) All the food she could ever want.

6. How old is Inigo when the six-fingered man kills his father?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fifteen.

7. What did the author realize about the manner in which his relative shared the story with him?
(a) Made up most of it.
(b) The delivery was overly theatrical.
(c) Kept only the action parts.
(d) Recited it by memory.

8. Why does Buttercup toss and turn all night following the visit from the Count and Countess?
(a) She is worried she might have insulted the Count.
(b) She doesn't want her horse to be taken away.
(c) She doesn't want her parents to be arrested.
(d) She wonders why women follow the farm boy around.

9. How did the author's relative entertain him during his recovery period?
(a) Inventing action stories.
(b) Reading him a story.
(c) Reciting songs and poems.
(d) Sharing family secrets.

10. When Buttercup jumps overboard into Florin Channel, someone tells her that she should beware of what?
(a) Merciless pirates.
(b) Ravenous piranhas.
(c) Bloodthirsty sharks.
(d) Prince Humperdinck.

11. Fezzik is the size of a typical man by the time he is in:
(a) Fifth grade.
(b) Kindergarten.
(c) Third grade.
(d) Diapers.

12. For years, the author heard The Princess Bride being told in the voice of his what?
(a) Mother.
(b) Father.
(c) Uncle.
(d) Grandmother.

13. What is Buttercup to Prince Humperdinck?
(a) The love of his life.
(b) The most intelligent woman in the world.
(c) An enigma.
(d) A possession.

14. At the Cliffs of Insanity, who climbs the sheer cliff walls towards Buttercup and her abductors?
(a) The Albino.
(b) Prince Humperdinck.
(c) Man in Black.
(d) Inigo Montoya.

15. What is the name of Westley's pirate ship?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Courage.
(c) Red Dread.
(d) Black Pearl.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Buttercup falls into Snow Sand, she what?

2. What do Fezzik's parents die from in Mongolia?

3. Who is Prince Humperdinck?

4. When the Prince and the Count reach the place where Buttercup and the Man in Black have fallen down the ravine, Humperdinck notes how odd it is for such a master to flee in what?

5. Who entertained the author when he was a child recovering at home?

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