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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 promise does John make Marion at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) To take up yoga.
(b) To find them a hotel.
(c) To behave.
(d) To stop calling.

2. Who approaches John Nickel about a job at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Wallace.
(b) Carl.
(c) Fay.
(d) Cyndi.

3. What does John notice about Carl as he leaves the bar in Chapter 2?
(a) He can barely walk.
(b) He always walks behind Fay.
(c) He is skipping.
(d) He walks very straight and fast.

4. The statue on the battlefield commemorates the dead of which state?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Iowa.

5. What did Marion demand in return for moving back in with John?
(a) They move out of Memphis.
(b) He give up drumming forever.
(c) They get married.
(d) He pay her way through school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John fixate on at the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. How does Ruth treat Fay in Chapter 6?

3. Who does John Nickel imagine as he walks through Fay's house?

4. Where did Carl work after his father's death?

5. What does Carl do while he is at the bar in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John learn about Marion at dinner in Chapter 5?

2. What do John and Fay do at the battlefield in Chapter 4?

3. What does John reason about the Taft house in the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. What is the nature of Ruth and John's visit together in the midst of Chapter 6?

5. Describe the interchange between Carl and John in Chapter 4?

6. Describe the frantic call that John gets at the end of the Chapter 1?

7. In what state is Cyndi on the second night of Chapter 3?

8. Why does John call Ruth in Chapter 6?

9. How does Fay describe her family to John In Chapter 6?

10. Describe John Nickel's experience at the Rum Boogie Cafe.

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