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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did John Caldwell go to college?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Juilliard.

2. Where did John say that Cynthia Mellins was living in 1978?
(a) France.
(b) Iran.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Afghanistan.

3. Who got out of a cab at the hospital just as Albert got in?
(a) Man and his pregnant wife.
(b) Young woman.
(c) Two young women.
(d) Old woman.

4. Approximately how many miles an hour does the average American walk?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2 1/2.
(d) 3 1/2.

5. What movie did John watch at the YMCA?
(a) First to Fight.
(b) The Conversation.
(c) Lilith.
(d) Riot.

6. When did Albert take a trip to Ireland with Sydney?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1968.

7. How long did Erwin like to know someone before he let them drive him in an automobile?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 10 years.

8. How long after John's son died, did Sydney die?
(a) 8 months.
(b) Within a year.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 2 years.

9. When did Albert take a ship to England and have an affair with a married woman?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1933.

10. Where did John Caldwell work in Part 3, Chapter 18?
(a) Trademark office.
(b) Engineering firm.
(c) Patent office.
(d) Law office.

11. How old was John's son when he died?
(a) 5.
(b) 4 1/2.
(c) 2.
(d) 3 1/2.

12. When Manny served in Vietnam, when was a Lieutenant Spitz killed standing atop sandbags?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1972.

13. When did John's son die?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1973.

14. Where did John's son die?
(a) Martha's Vineyard.
(b) Florida.
(c) Cape Cod.
(d) California.

15. How long did Tad drive an ambulance?
(a) A few semesters.
(b) 20 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) A couple summers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was John Caldwell in 1978?

2. What did Albert hit when he drove the cab to the Apelles?

3. How many times a week did Erwin tell John that he saw his psychiatrist?

4. When Erwin left the apartment building to dispose of the fish, how high were the drifts against the foundations of buildings on the east side of the street?

5. When John told the story of his son's death to Erwin, how long had it been since his son died?

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