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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Montgomery wonder about as he tells the court where he was?
(a) If anyone cared about him anymore.
(b) If his life was worth living.
(c) Why he was even in jail.
(d) If he ruined his mother's life.

2. What startles the stable hand on the day Montgomery returns to his family home?
(a) She sees a ghost.
(b) She thinks Dorothy is dead.
(c) Montgomery walks into her room.
(d) She's scared of Montgomery.

3. Where does Montgomery have to go to get the money he owes?
(a) To his best friend's house.
(b) To his wife's family.
(c) To the bank.
(d) To his home.

4. What feeling does Montgomery have as he travels?
(a) He feels anxious.
(b) He feels he is going to do something bad.
(c) He is very upset.
(d) He is very excited.

5. How does Montgomery feel his trip will appear to others?
(a) He is stressed and needs a break.
(b) He is running away.
(c) He is lucky to be going.
(d) He must be very wealthy.

6. What does Dorothy claim her relationship with the stable hand is?
(a) She says they have a strictly working relationship.
(b) She says they are lovers.
(c) She says she's like a son to her.
(d) She says they are best friends.

7. Why are these missing items important to Montgomery?
(a) He is supposed to inherit them.
(b) He bought them years ago.
(c) They were a present from his father.
(d) He gave them to his mother.

8. What does the argument between Montgomery and his mother about the missing items bring up?
(a) Montgomery's abandonment.
(b) Montgomery's reckless past.
(c) His father's death.
(d) Montgomery's bad habits.

9. Who never went to Dun Laoghaire with Montgomery?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His father.
(d) His aunt.

10. Where does Montgomery go because he enjoys the atmosphere when he arrives in Dublin?
(a) His favorite restaurant, O'Toole's.
(b) A local coffee shop.
(c) Wally's Pub.
(d) One of the local museums.

11. Who does Montgomery think of when he goes into the wine cellar?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His father.
(c) His first girlfriend.
(d) His wife.

12. What kind of painting catches Montgomery's attention at Whitewater?
(a) A painting of the mountains.
(b) An abstract piece of modern art.
(c) A painting of the countryside.
(d) A painting of a woman.

13. What do Montgomery and his father share?
(a) A dislike for the world.
(b) A distaste for sweets.
(c) A respect for their mothers.
(d) A love of education.

14. How did Montgomery meet his wife?
(a) On a blind date.
(b) Through Anna Behrens.
(c) At church.
(d) At a party.

15. Montgomery goes looking for his mother to ask her about the missing items. Where does he find her and the stable hand?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the basement.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In her bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Montgomery describe his father's appearance?

2. Who does Montgomery meet while in the Mediterranean that he finds interesting?

3. Where does Montgomery travel to after he neglects to pay back the money he borrowed?

4. What is the stable hand's name?

5. How do people at the university feel about Montgomery?

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