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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does the writer's insurance company insures his typing finger?
(a) Arthritis and burns.
(b) Breaking and amputation.
(c) They do not insure it.
(d) Fire and theft.

2. Who is Gulietta?
(a) A deaf mute servant who needed a home.
(b) The last servant to put up with Princess Leigh-Cheri.
(c) The last living servant who accompanied Max and Tilli into exile.
(d) A woman that Max and Tilli hired to work for them after coming to the U.S..

3. What effect does the color of the typewriter have on the writer?
(a) It is too distracting.
(b) It appears to be looking over his shoulder.
(c) It has no effect on the writer.
(d) It is a blinding blue.

4. What surprises Leigh-Cheri when she sees Bernard again?
(a) His hair cut.
(b) He'd seen a dentist.
(c) His red hair.
(d) His newly grown red beard.

5. How old is Gulietta?
(a) In her seventies.
(b) In her eighties.
(c) In her thirties.
(d) In her forties.

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

7. What metaphor does the writer use to say he hopes to make it to the end of the novel?
(a) Fire eating.
(b) Paper hanging.
(c) Wine drinking.
(d) Auto racing.

8. What does Bernard compare outlaws to in Chapter Twenty-Seven?
(a) Composers.
(b) Bartenders.
(c) Poets.
(d) Writers.

9. What does Bernard say when he interrupts Leigh-Cheri's conversation with the other man?
(a) "Hmmm."
(b) "Olly, Olly, Oxenfree."
(c) "Yum."
(d) "Yuk."

10. Who does Leigh-Cheri miss when she stays with Bernard in Chapter Thirty-Nine?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Gulietta.
(c) Ralph Nader.
(d) Darth Vader.

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

12. What does Leigh-Cheri do to her toad once?
(a) Lets it go in the blackberries.
(b) Sits it on lily pads.
(c) Sleeps with it.
(d) Kisses it.

13. Who also wants to participate in the Care Fest?
(a) The Medical Doctor's Association of Hawaii.
(b) Darth Vader.
(c) Ralph Nader's brother Darth.
(d) Flying saucer groups.

14. Who chaperons Princess Leigh-Cheri?
(a) King Max.
(b) Chuck.
(c) Queen Tilli.
(d) Gulietta.

15. How does the writer describe the Hawaii sun?
(a) It sets earlier than in Nebraska.
(b) It sets later than in Nebraska.
(c) It has fallen under the influence of the moon.
(d) It is hot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer want to leave with his readers?

2. Why is the man conversing on the airplane in Chapter Twenty-One going to the Care Fest?

3. What inspires Bernard's breath-fresh commercial he submits to Certs?

4. What does the writer's new typewriter speak?

5. Who is Chuck?

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