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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Leigh-Cheri described in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) The long curl of her lashes cause fimbrillate shadows to fall on the swell of her cheeks.
(b) Her blue eyes are soft and moist as "huevos rancheros".
(c) Her hair rides gravity's one-way ticket all the way to her waist.
(d) Her hair is straight and red as ironed ketsup.

2. What mistake does Bernard make as he carried out his intentions for being at the conference?
(a) He mixs up the UFO conference with the Geo-Therapy Care Fest.
(b) His bomb goes off before his class started.
(c) He arrives early and didn't have a class.
(d) He arrives late and made his students angry.

3. Why doesn't the writer switch machines?
(a) He is too tired to go shopping.
(b) He can't find another red typewriter.
(c) He can't find his warranty.
(d) Nothing is open at that late hour.

4. In Chapter Thirty-One, why does Leigh-Cheri say she can't miss the Care Fest on the following evening?
(a) Because Ralph Nader is speaking.
(b) Because she wants to see the recycling demonstration.
(c) Because the man from the airplane has his workshop on meditation.
(d) Because the people from Argon are speaking.

5. Who now ruled the Furstenberg-Barcalona homeland?
(a) The Pope.
(b) A right-wing military junta.
(c) The CIA.
(d) A left-wing American Govenor.

6. In the third "Interlude," what does the writer say his typewriter needs?
(a) A verb job.
(b) A lube job.
(c) A new paint job.
(d) A new ribbon.

7. Why doesn't Leigh-Cherie like Sunday brunch?
(a) No one makes her eggs correctly.
(b) She is on a diet.
(c) Pork is served and she is a vegetarian.
(d) She hates Sunday.

8. How do the villagers learn about Christian burials?
(a) By telephoning the American Embassy
(b) By reading the pilot's Last Will in Testament.
(c) By looking it up on the Internet.
(d) By reading Finnegans Wake.

9. How long were the Furstenberg-Barcalona's exiled?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Ten years.

10. For what magazine does Reed Jarvis write?
(a) Time.
(b) Ladies Home Journal.
(c) Life.
(d) People.

11. Who does Leigh-Cheri make a citizen's arrest on?
(a) Boom Boom Firecracker.
(b) Bernard the Woodpecker.
(c) Ralph Nader.
(d) Gulietta.

12. Why is Bernard at the conference?
(a) He is taking a class on alternative energy.
(b) He is teaching a class on bomb making.
(c) He wants to learn about earth science.
(d) He is going to set off a bomb at the conference.

13. Who is not on the Twelve Most Famous Redheads list in Chapter Twenty?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Bernard Mickey Wrangle.
(c) Margaret Sanger.
(d) Leigh-Cheri.

14. Who wrote the Prologue?
(a) Robbins and Caruso.
(b) Tim Allen.
(c) Tom Robbins.
(d) Tim Robbins.

15. What is the only serious question mentioned in Chapter Two?
(a) "Who knows how to make love stay?"
(b) "Whether or not to continue reading?"
(c) "Whether or not to kill yourself?"
(d) "Who knows how to grow blackberries?"

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer describe the Hawaii sun?

2. How old is Gulietta?

3. What does Bernard say about Leigh-Cheri's attitudes?

4. What is the similarity between juggling and composing on a typewriter?

5. Why does Bernard Mickey Wrangle grin as the plane lands in Honolulu?

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