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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Bart remembered in his high school yearbook?
(a) As the most likely to get married right after high school.
(b) As the best dressed.
(c) As the Class Clown.
(d) As the most likely to succeed.

2. How does Drake get the money to run his coffee shop?
(a) Old family money.
(b) He is independently wealthy.
(c) From loans.
(d) From donations.

3. What do the two men of Magliore's do to Bart's home?
(a) Set explosives around it.
(b) Fix it to be tamper-proof.
(c) Break into it.
(d) "Wash" it.

4. According to Magliore, during their January 8th conversation, what is Bart asking him to do?
(a) Risk his own life.
(b) Do something illegal.
(c) Start dating Mary.
(d) Commit a moral sin.

5. How many people come to take possession of Bart's home?
(a) Three; one person from the city and two police officers.
(b) Two; one person from the city and one police officer.
(c) Four; two people from the city and two police officers.
(d) Four; one person from the city and three police officers.

6. What song is on the stereo as Bart is test firing his guns?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Brown Sugar.
(c) Midnight Rambler.
(d) Start Me Up.

7. What time does Bart wake up on the morning of January 20th?
(a) 4:00 a.m.
(b) 3:00 a.m.
(c) 2:15 a.m.
(d) 2:15 p.m.

8. At the end of the conversation about the explosives, what does Bart tell Magliore he wants to do?
(a) Run away with Olivia.
(b) Get back together with Mary.
(c) Set up a trust fund.
(d) Commit suicide.

9. Who does Phil Drake quote while talking to Bart in the den?
(a) James' "The Turn of the Screw".
(b) Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".
(c) Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
(d) Poe's "The Raven".

10. According to Magliore, when you kill a guy, what are you doing?
(a) Putting him out of his misery.
(b) Doing God a favor.
(c) Sparing him the pain of hell.
(d) Ridding the world of a meaningless waste of oxygen.

11. What does Bart say to Mary as they hang up the phone on their January 17th conversation?
(a) Screw you.
(b) I hate you.
(c) Have a great life.
(d) I love you.

12. What does Bart do with the canape that Mary brings to him?
(a) He throws it across the room.
(b) He puts it in his shirt pocket.
(c) He throws it on the floor.
(d) He drops it in her drink.

13. What does the nursery school teacher call Charlie?
(a) Chuck.
(b) Charles.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Chucky.

14. What does Bart take down to the post office on the morning of January 16th?
(a) The envelope for Mary.
(b) Charlie's clothes for donation.
(c) A letter to Steve Ornder.
(d) The envelope for Olivia.

15. On January 11th, where does Bart meet Magliore's men?
(a) Twilight Lanes.
(b) Drop and Bowl.
(c) Revel Lanes.
(d) Cutter's Alley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Waly Hamner steal this quote from: "The center does not hold"?

2. According to Bart, what activity is soothing and sane?

3. What does Bart find in the pocket of his coat on the way into the New Year's Eve party?

4. When talking to Fenner about the finalization of the terms of the house, what does Bart find out?

5. What news does Mary have about her plans to move on with her life?

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