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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what hotel does the protagonist’s brother call her with news about their father?
(a) Gateway.
(b) Stanton.
(c) Indigo.
(d) Gardner.

2. Which of the following does the protagonist ascribe to the Kid?
(a) Stimming.
(b) Exophoria.
(c) Klang associations.
(d) Judas assemblies.

3. Where did the protagonist and her brother visit Nina Rindt?
(a) Lucerne.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Bern.

4. Against whom does the protagonist rail in describing her regard for her brother?
(a) Malinowski.
(b) Haeckel.
(c) Westermarck.
(d) Spencer.

5. What name does the protagonist give to the “presence beyond the gate” (106)?
(a) Megamagister.
(b) Archmagister.
(c) Megatron.
(d) Archatron.

6. To which of the following does the protagonist compare herself?
(a) Purvis.
(b) Floyd.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Dillinger.

7. Which of the following animals does the protagonist assert knows what is fair?
(a) A bird.
(b) A fish.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.

8. With which of the following does VI end?
(a) “Oh. Yes. Of course.”
(b) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”
(c) “Yes. I’m sorry.”
(d) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”

9. What color does the protagonist suggest she wear to discuss dreams?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

10. Which of the following does the Kid note is featured in the Barnfowl Follies?
(a) The Cock from Montauk.
(b) The Chick from Passaic.
(c) The Hen from Red Glen.
(d) The Rooster from Worcester.

11. With which of the following does IV end?
(a) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”
(b) “Salvaged out of a bleak sea of the incomputable. Time’s up.”
(c) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(d) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”

12. What is the name of the interlocutor’s wife?
(a) Edna.
(b) Edwina.
(c) Edith.
(d) Edie.

13. With which historian does the protagonist note conversing?
(a) David Duchovny.
(b) Richard Duchovny.
(c) David Hawkins.
(d) Richard Hawkins.

14. In what part of the brain does the protagonist posit the unconscious resides?
(a) Corpus callosum.
(b) Thalamus.
(c) Locus ceruleus.
(d) Amygdala.

15. What show does the protagonist note the Kid discusses?
(a) The Fairview Review.
(b) The Gypsy from Poughkeepsie.
(c) Beverly’s Reveilles.
(d) The Raucous in Secaucus.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does IV begin?

2. With which of the following does VI begin?

3. With whom did the protagonist work on violin harmonics?

4. How far from ground zero at a nuclear test site had the protagonist’s father been?

5. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?

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