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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. Who is Dick?
(a) Leslie's father.
(b) Richard's father.
(c) Dickie's conscience.
(d) A blend of Dickie and Richard.

2. Who is the only person who Dick feels he can rely on?
(a) Himself.
(b) Richard.
(c) Leslie.
(d) Ray.

3. Richard learns that the desert around him is created by ____________________.
(a) greed.
(b) evil.
(c) sadness.
(d) repressed memories.

4. When Richard returns home in Chapter 11, he feels as if he is acting ____________________.
(a) petulantly.
(b) childishly.
(c) coyly.
(d) angrily.

5. When Richard is trying to find Dickie, Richard's mind is described as ___________________.
(a) a desolate landscape.
(b) a kaleidoscope.
(c) a whirling dervish.
(d) a cloudless sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard want to tell Dickie in Chapter 6?

2. What does Dickie do when he sees Richard in his thoughts?

3. What is Richard doing with friends on Tiger Mountain?

4. As he prepares to go out, Richard mentally expresses disgust for _________________.

5. Richard encourages Dickie to defy convention and __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Dickie and what promise had Richard made to him long ago?

2. Describe the time that a woman came to Richard and started discussing his thoughts.

3. What does Dickie manage to teach to Richard even though Richard is providing instruction during the flight?

4. What does Richard tell Dickie are the two things necessary to get through life?

5. What is the landscape in which Richard finds Dickie in his mind and what does it symbolize?

6. What role do angels play in Richard's life?

7. What is the purpose of different people coming into Richard's life?

8. Describe what Richard sees when Leslie encourages him to remember when he was nine, right after his brother's death.

9. Describe Richard's first encounter with Dickie.

10. Describe Dickie's sense of accomplishment in the water tower incident.

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