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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 does Montgomery call his mother when he calls her to the witness stand?
(a) His savior.
(b) The devil.
(c) An angel.
(d) A sweetheart.

2. As Montgomery is talking to his mother at his family home he looks at his mother and notices something. What does he realize?
(a) She has gained weight.
(b) She has had a stroke.
(c) She has lost weight.
(d) She has gotten plastic surgery.

3. Where has Montgomery lived the past few years?
(a) On a Mediterranean island.
(b) In London.
(c) In the United States.
(d) In Ireland.

4. How is Montgomery's lawyer described?
(a) As a complete waste of money.
(b) As an incompetent.
(c) As a "terror in the courtroom."
(d) As a manipulator.

5. What does Montgomery insist he went to Whitewater to do?
(a) To buy art.
(b) To see Anna Behrens.
(c) To sell some art.
(d) To take a tour.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Montgomery refer to his wife when they meet?

2. What does Montgomery feel it is necessary to tell the court that he is not?

3. Who never went to Dun Laoghaire with Montgomery?

4. Montgomery makes a side comment to the court expressing his surprise in something. What is he surprised about?

5. Who was visited every time Montgomery and his father went to Dun Laoghaire when Montgomery was a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author have Montgomery tell the part about walking in on Joanne naked?

2. Why would it be in Montgomery's benefit to keep information on Randolph to blackmail him?

3. Why does Montgomery feel the need to describe his mother as "statuesque"?

4. Montgomery's counsel forces him to say that he wanted to kill his father so he could marry his mother. Montgomery claims this isn't true. Why would his counsel force him to tell this lie?

5. The author goes into detail when he describes Dublin after ten years. Why does he do this?

6. Why is Montgomery's recount of his mother's funeral ironic?

7. In the beginning of the novel, Montgomery makes a point to say he is not a homosexual. Why does he continue to make references to homosexuals, as when comparing his lawyer to a boy he believes was in love with him when he was a child?

8. Montgomery describes his old home as in disrepair and falling apart. At the same time, his mother tells him that he has gained weight. Why is it important that these two incidences are told together in Montgomery's story?

9. Montgomery has the feeling he is about to do something very bad. Why is this ironic?

10. Why do you think the people who Randolph borrowed money from to give to Montgomery cut off Randolph's ear?

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