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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was in the three-ring binder that Roseanna asked Sabbath to bring to her while she was in the psychiatric hospital?
(a) Letters from her father that had been written just before his suicide.
(b) A manuscript that Roseanna wanted to finish writing.
(c) Roseanna's typed diary chronicling the last three years.
(d) Notes from Roseanna's students.

2. How does Sabbath feel when he enters the Jewish cemetery?
(a) He feels peaceful.
(b) He is flooded with memories.
(c) He feels overwhelmed.
(d) He feels uncomfortable.

3. What does Sabbath see in Fish's house?
(a) His mother's sideboard.
(b) His old record player.
(c) His father's hunting trophy.
(d) Morty's guitar.

4. How was the 1989 scandal made public?
(a) Students' parents called to complain about Sabbath.
(b) Sabbath's students went to the dean to complain about him.
(c) The girl whom Sabbath had sexually harassed left a tape of their conversations in the library.
(d) The human resources office checked on the validity of Sabbath's degree.

5. How does Sabbath proposition Michelle to have an affair with him?
(a) He reminds her of Norman's diminished libido, and brags about his own experiences.
(b) He references her profession as an orthodontist, and asks her to check his teeth.
(c) He tells her that no other man would want her because of her age.
(d) He threatens to blackmail her with the Polaroids that he has found.

6. What does Michelle say about Helen as Sabbath is telling his story?
(a) That Helen was brave, and reminds Michelle of her daughter.
(b) That Helen must have been promiscuous if she did not mind what Sabbath did.
(c) That Helen reminds Michelle of what she was like at that age.
(d) That Helen should have filed charges against Sabbath.

7. What does Crawford say about Sabbath's family?
(a) He does not remember them.
(b) He dislikes them.
(c) He remembers them.
(d) He likes them.

8. What is Sabbath's reply when Michelle tells him how highly Norman spoke of him?
(a) Sabbath interrupts Michelle and changes the subject.
(b) Norman says those things to justify having someone of a lower social class at his dinner table.
(c) Sabbath is surprised that Norman thinks so highly of him.
(d) Sabbath does not care what Norman thinks; he only wants to know what Michelle thinks.

9. According to Crawford, who tends the Sabbath family's graves?
(a) A man, younger than Sabbath.
(b) An elderly man.
(c) A woman, maybe their daughter.
(d) No one.

10. What does Sabbath think that Michelle is trying to communicate to him by what she is wearing?
(a) That she is a nurturing, motherly type.
(b) That she has decided to have an affair with him.
(c) That she is not interested in him sexually.
(d) That she wants him to respect her more.

11. One of the patients at the hospital where Roseanna was staying referred to Sabbath by the name of which of the following gods?
(a) Pan.
(b) Bacchus.
(c) Mars.
(d) Dionysus.

12. How did Roseanna react when she first found out about the scandal concerning Sabbath?
(a) She drove her car into a boulder, and then laid down on the road.
(b) She tried to commit suicide with painkillers.
(c) In a rage, she went to Kathy's house to confront her.
(d) She started slapping and punching Sabbath.

13. Who is Fish?
(a) Drenka's doctor.
(b) Sabbath's cousin.
(c) Sabbath's uncle.
(d) Morty's high school friend.

14. What does Sabbath start carrying in his pants pocket?
(a) Roseanna's Alcoholics Anonymous medallion.
(b) A pair of Deborah's underwear.
(c) Drenka's hair ribbon.
(d) Deborah's picture.

15. Which of the following reasons is Sabbath's justification for taking the money and pictures upon fleeing Norman's house?
(a) Sabbath needs them more than Norman does.
(b) Sabbath plans on returning them at some point.
(c) Norman has plenty of money and can always get more pictures of Michelle.
(d) Seeing them would destroy Norman.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Part 8, Sabbath finds letters written by whom?

2. Why did Sabbath feel that he had lost his job over the scandal?

3. How old was Sabbath when his brother, Morty died?

4. Which of the following is the first thing that Sabbath does when he is alone in Deborah's bedroom?

5. Why does Norman insist that Sabbath stay with him?

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