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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the people at Linc's office feel about what happened to him?
(a) Sympathetic.
(b) Elated.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Outraged.

2. What personal crisis led to Roseanna's hospital stay in 1989?
(a) The death of her parents.
(b) A divorce.
(c) A miscarriage.
(d) A scandal involving Sabbath and one of his students.

3. Under what type of government was Drenka raised?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Communist.
(d) Republican.

4. Which of the following did Drenka once ask Sabbath to do for Matija?
(a) To find him a job.
(b) To proofread a written speech.
(c) To help him build a better relationship with Matthew.
(d) To help him do his taxes.

5. What caused Roseanna's nervous breakdown?
(a) Sabbath's affair with a student.
(b) Her mother's death.
(c) A miscarriage.
(d) Sabbath's career loss.

6. Why did Sabbath stop directing?
(a) Because he lost his job by spending all of his time searching for Nikki.
(b) Because too many actors refused to work with him.
(c) Because it was not exciting without Nikki as his leading lady.
(d) Because he was not allowed to make the radical changes that he wanted to make.

7. Why does Matija's story about the sympathy cards that he received after Drenka's death upset Sabbath?
(a) Because Sabbath is jealous that he did not receive any sympathy cards after Drenka'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 guilty due to Matija's genuine sadness over his wife's death.
(d) Because Sabbath is jealous that he did not receive any sympathy cards after the death of his first wife, Nikki.

8. Why did Sabbath leave New York the first time?
(a) Because he was going crazy searching for Nikki.
(b) Because he wanted to live closer to Roseanna.
(c) Because he wanted to be closer to his family.
(d) Because he had lost his job and had no reason to stay.

9. Why does Sabbath begin to second-guess his decision to leave Roseanna?
(a) She is the only person left who cares about him.
(b) He realizes how much he cares about her.
(c) He needs money and medical insurance.
(d) He does not like the idea of change.

10. Who arrives and hits the person at Drenka's grave while Sabbath watches?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Matija.
(c) Christa.
(d) Barrett.

11. At the end of Part 3, who is at Drenka's grave when Sabbath arrives there?
(a) Matija.
(b) Silvija.
(c) Barrett.
(d) Scott.

12. What surprised Matija enough to cause him to end his conversation with Sabbath?
(a) Sabbath's mention of Silvija.
(b) Pictures of Drenka that Sabbath possessed.
(c) Sabbath's comments about Drenka's sexual performance.
(d) Seeing Sabbath's birthmark, and realizing that he had met him before.

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

14. In what country was Drenka born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Russia.
(c) Croatia.
(d) Greece.

15. As the novel opens, who issues an ultimatum to Sabbath?
(a) His mistress.
(b) His son.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sabbath's memories of Nikki are interrupted by which of the following realizations?

2. What did the woman in the house next to what Sabbath thought might be Nikki's, tell Sabbath?

3. What did Linc think had happened to Nikki?

4. What happened as a result of the favor that Drenka asked Sabbath to perform for Matija?

5. Over the years, Sabbath has encouraged Drenka to do which of the following?

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