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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who only spoke to Nikki a handful of times, despite Sabbath's efforts to get them to talk?
(a) Roseanna.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Drenka.
(d) Sabbath's mother.

2. What was the first thing that triggered Roseanna's hatred for Sabbath?
(a) He did not make an effort to get along with her family.
(b) He did not work, and used all of her money.
(c) She found out about an affair that he was having.
(d) He refused to have a child with her.

3. Why did Nikki hate her father?
(a) Because he killed her pet dog.
(b) Because he molested Nikki when she was a teenager.
(c) Because he was violent and abusive.
(d) Becaue he was an alcoholic and a gambler, who was unfaithful to her mother.

4. Why does Matija's story about the sympathy cards that he received after Drenka's death upset Sabbath?
(a) Because Sabbath is guilty due to Matija's genuine sadness over his wife's death.
(b) Because Sabbath is angry on account of Matija not having known Drenka as well as he did, and does not deserve the sympathy.
(c) Because Sabbath is jealous that he did not receive any sympathy cards after Drenka's death.
(d) Because Sabbath is jealous that he did not receive any sympathy cards after the death of his first wife, Nikki.

5. What did Sabbath and Ron do together?
(a) Hitchhiked to New York.
(b) Wrote Sabbath's acts.
(c) Set up their own theatre.
(d) Went to San Francisco.

6. What is Matthew's profession?
(a) Police officer.
(b) Firefighter.
(c) Innkeeper.
(d) Puppeteer.

7. What did Linc think had happened to Nikki?
(a) That she left to be with someone else.
(b) That she was abducted by a jealous lover.
(c) That she vanished to kill herself.
(d) That she ran home to her family.

8. What did the woman in the house next to what Sabbath thought might be Nikki's, tell Sabbath?
(a) That Nikki left because Sabbath drank too much.
(b) That Nikki used to live next to her, but disappeared.
(c) That Nikki left because Sabbath beat her.
(d) That she did not know who Nikki was.

9. What does Drenka's husband do for a living?
(a) Policeman.
(b) Innkeeper.
(c) Magistrate.
(d) Restauranteur.

10. What finally makes Sabbath decide to leave Roseanna?
(a) She has a relapse and starts drinking again.
(b) He realizes that she will never have the courage to leave him.
(c) She refuses to stop trying to correct the problems in their marriage.
(d) He realizes that she would not be able to endure his suicide.

11. What is Sabbath's former profession?
(a) Writer.
(b) Singer.
(c) Puppeteer.
(d) Musician.

12. How did Sabbath and Nikki meet?
(a) Nikki was one of his students.
(b) Nikki attended one of the plays that he directed.
(c) Nikki attended one of his street performances.
(d) Nikki was friends with Roseanna.

13. What happened to Sabbath's mother when Morty died?
(a) She spent all of her time on the boardwalk, talking to her dead son.
(b) She disappeared.
(c) She committed suicide.
(d) She was hospitalized after having suffered a nervous breakdown.

14. Sabbath's memories of Nikki are interrupted by which of the following realizations?
(a) That he does not know where Norman lives.
(b) That he does not have any money in his checking account.
(c) That Matthew meant to hit Sabbath at Drenka's grave.
(d) That his car has run out of gas.

15. Who is Roseanna?
(a) Sabbath's niece.
(b) Sabbath's sister.
(c) Sabbath's wife.
(d) Sabbath's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Barrett?

2. What was Sabbath's mother always doing?

3. How does Sabbath scare Scott Lewis away from Drenka's grave?

4. Why does Sabbath begin to second-guess his decision to leave Roseanna?

5. What caused Roseanna's nervous breakdown?

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