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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Campbell Wheemer ask Hank advice about?
(a) Buying a house.
(b) Investing in stocks.
(c) Teaching methods.
(d) Where he can find a good mechanic.

2. In Chapter 3, where does Hank end up, after he has made the decision to go out?
(a) In his office.
(b) A house in Alleghany Wells.
(c) His best friend's apartment.
(d) The corner store.

3. What do Hank's parents do for a living?
(a) They are both doctors.
(b) His father is a writer, his mother a professor.
(c) His father is a doctor, his mother a high school teacher.
(d) They are both college professors.

4. What does Hank's wife do for a living?
(a) She is a high school teacher.
(b) She is an adult education teacher.
(c) She is a kindergarten teacher.
(d) She is an elementary school teacher.

5. What is the name of the television news reporter who narrates the segment that Hank is in?
(a) Mandy.
(b) Missy.
(c) Michelle.
(d) Maureen.

6. In the evening, after Teddy drives Hank home, what does Hank decide to do?
(a) Go for a drive in his wife's car.
(b) Go for a walk.
(c) Go for a run.
(d) Take his motorcycle out.

7. After talking to the goose, and then to Leo, Hank heads for the cafeteria. He meets Meg there. Who is Meg the daughter of?
(a) His father's second wife.
(b) Billy Quigley.
(c) Phineas Coomb.
(d) Campbell Wheemer.

8. In the cafeteria, what does Meg tell Hank she might do?
(a) Write a book.
(b) Travel for a year.
(c) Get her Ph. D.
(d) Get married.

9. What did Hank's mother want him to do in exchange for allowing him to have a dog?
(a) To stop slamming the door.
(b) To clean his room every Saturday morning.
(c) To agree to spend time with his grandparents.
(d) To take up a paper route.

10. Generally, how does Hank's father deal with Hank?
(a) He treats him like his best friend.
(b) He avoids him.
(c) He is very attentive and loving.
(d) He is verbally abusive.

11. What does Leo aspire to be?
(a) A writer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A millionaire.
(d) A professor.

12. What name did Hank give the dog?
(a) Bud.
(b) Goof.
(c) Red.
(d) Brownie.

13. What is staff member Gracie upset about in Chapter 1 that leads to Hank's being driven home?
(a) Hank fires her.
(b) He hints that he does not consider her a poet.
(c) He tells her she looks fat.
(d) Hank owes her money.

14. How did Hank try to convince his parents to get a dog?
(a) He took care of his neighbor's dog every weekend.
(b) He talked about dogs all the time.
(c) He threatened to run away.
(d) He got a dog house so he could keep the dog outside.

15. As Hank watches the television crew, his hands tingle and he needs to urinate. What does he take these symptoms to mean?
(a) That he should throw his career aside and live in the woods.
(b) That his father is in the neighborhood.
(c) That he should start writing again.
(d) That he has diabetes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hank's father leave his family?

2. After leaving Bodie's office, Hank crosses campus and sees the television crew is there again. Who does he see with them?

3. Hank has a dog named Occam. What kind of dog is Occam?

4. The night after the news report is aired, Hank meets with Dickie Pope. What is Dickie's position at the college?

5. When Hank is in his mother's basement, what kind of physical reaction does he have?

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