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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. Where had Leach gone that led him to change his bet?
(a) A church meeting.
(b) A Packer pep rally.
(c) An AA meeting.
(d) A Kansas City pep rally.

2. When Mr. Screwjack left, the narrator wrote "And then he was gone, with no noise, like some ____ from my other world."
(a) Memory.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Alien.
(d) Monster.

3. In the opening of "Screwjack," the letter is described as having been written how many days before "his" disappearance?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 21.
(d) 10.

4. According to Thompson in "Death of a Poet," who had struck out?
(a) Mighty Ott.
(b) Mighty Casey.
(c) Babe Ruth.
(d) Mighty Mick.

5. The narrator described at the beginning of "Screwjack" that a crust of snow had formed on the porch since ____________.
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator described his longing for Mr. Screwjack as "wanting him so deep inside me that I will finally feel him coining on the soft red skin of my own __________."

2. Leach's wife had gone to the store for ___________.

3. What was the title of the 1992 Rolling Stone article by Hunter S. Thompson in which F. X. Leach also appeared?

4. The second narrator told Screwjack that he was no better than that punk who fell for _____________.

5. What did Leach tell Thompson he was about to do when he arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprise news did Leach break on the narrator in "Death of a Poet"?

2. Describe the use of imagery in "Death of a Poet." What images are symbolic in the story? How?

3. Where had the narrator arrived in "Death of a Poet"? What did he see upon arrival?

4. What did Screwjack do to the second narrator?

5. What had the narrator just done with Screwjack in the beginning of the story?

6. What lines open "Death of a Poet"? To whom are they attributed?

7. Who "wrote" the opening chapter of "Screwjack"? What exposition is revealed here?

8. What did Duke write to the Lord in "Screwjack"?

9. What did Leach do at the end of "Death of a Poet"?

10. What did Leach tell the narrator was the savior of his marriage in "Death of a Poet"?

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