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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. What color does the person visiting Sarah Byrnes in Chapter 6 traditionally wear?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

2. According to Sarah Byrnes, why did she come to the mental hospital faking her break?
(a) She needed to think.
(b) She needed food.
(c) She needed to heal.
(d) She needed space.

3. What does the narrator's mother think his father teaches?
(a) Genealogy.
(b) Geography.
(c) Geology.
(d) Gemology.

4. When the CAT class volunteer plays a tape to start his presentation, what song does the volunteer play?
(a) "From a Distance".
(b) "God is Watching Us".
(c) "Life is Just a Dream".
(d) "Rolling on a River".

5. Which of these students did NOT picket outside the town's abortion clinic?
(a) Cynthia Parrish.
(b) Steve Ellerby.
(c) Sally Eaton.
(d) Mark Brittain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Sarah Byrnes refuse to write an expose on the person Dale suggested for his first article?

2. At the time Dale suggested topics for his first article, how many issues of "Crispy Pork Rinds" had already been published?

3. How many students in the CAT class does Moby know have picketed outside the town's abortion clinic?

4. As Sarah Byrnes' visitor is leaving in Chapter 6, what does her visitor ask Moby?

5. What is Mr. Ellerby's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to what Ellerby tells Moby, why has Ellerby to this point stayed as far away from Sarah Byrnes as possible?

2. According to the bumper sticker on Ellerby's car, what are the wages of sin?

3. Which of Moby's dysfunctional behaviors does his mother hate the most?

4. Why does Ellerby sometimes threaten to give his Rottweiler to Moby?

5. What is nearly impossible for Moby to admit to other people?

6. What reason does Mark Brittain give to Ms. Lemry as an explanation for why he and Jody want to drop the CAT class?

7. Before visiting his friend in the hospital, how long had it been since the narrator had been on the psychiatric unit and why had he been there?

8. According to his mother, what attribute does the narrator possess that his father did not?

9. What is Ms. Lemry's initial argument to Mark when he tries to drop the CAT class?

10. According to what the narrator's hospitalized friend told him, why were her burns never surgically corrected?

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