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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 does the narrator begin to wonder about the Coldharbour Lane homicide victim?
(a) What his name was.
(b) Who his children were.
(c) What he had done for a living.
(d) Where his soul had gone when it left his body.

2. What do both the narrator and Naz say they always used to like?
(a) Running marathons.
(b) The fair.
(c) Playing dress-up.
(d) Going to the movies.

3. Who does Naz tell the narrator has been looking for him in Part IV?
(a) Greg.
(b) Marc Daubenay.
(c) Henry.
(d) Matthew Younger.

4. Why is Greg upset with the narrator in Part III?
(a) He knows the narrator lied about his settlement.
(b) Greg has been sick, and the narrator told him he did not care.
(c) The narrator has been ignoring Greg's calls.
(d) The narrator is moving out of the country and did not bother to tell Greg.

5. Why does Annie tell the narrator that the natural element in his apartment reenactment is different?
(a) It is a different season.
(b) Plants die.
(c) The bugs are migrating.
(d) People change their patterns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator ask to fix the natural element in his apartment in Chapter 13?

2. How does the narrator feel watching the person fixing his car?

3. Why does Annie think the liver smells strange to the narrator?

4. What does the narrator ask the motorbike man to do in Part III that he has never asked before?

5. What kind of car do the people playing the killers in the reenactment drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do with Roger's models of the various scenes that interest him?

2. What does the narrator not like, and fail to consider, about the way the sun is hitting the floor in his apartment building?

3. What happens to the cats on the roof of the building routinely, and how does the narrator handle this problem?

4. In Part IV, what kind of reenactment does the narrator ask for that is a departure from the other ones he has asked ror?

5. What role does the narrator take in the homicide reenactment, and how does the reenactment make him feel?

6. What is wrong with the plants the Portuguese plant specialist brings with her to the new building?

7. In Part IV, what event does the narrator become obsessed with reenacting?

8. What events does the narrator become obsessed with in general in Part IV?

9. What does the doctor who examines the narrator conclude about the narrator in Part IV?

10. Why does the narrator get so angry at the pianist in Part III?

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