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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 consider asking Charlie for?
(a) A tour around town.
(b) A ride home.
(c) Directions.
(d) A loan.

2. What is Montgomery's dream about?
(a) He dreams he has met a beautiful woman.
(b) He dreams he is chewing on an unknown creature.
(c) He dreams about his dead father.
(d) He dreams about his mother dying.

3. How does Montgomery describe his mother?
(a) A small, quiet woman.
(b) A small, mean woman.
(c) A large, emotional woman.
(d) As a large woman, with little emotion.

4. Montgomery comes back into the present to tell the courts about where he had gone that day. Where did he go?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) To see his son.
(c) To his mother's funeral.
(d) To his favorite restaurant.

5. What happens in a crowded street as Anna is returning from taking her father to the hospital?
(a) She is mugged.
(b) A car bomb goes off.
(c) She witnesses a murder.
(d) She is carjacked.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who never went to Dun Laoghaire with Montgomery?

2. What does Dorothy claim her relationship with the stable hand is?

3. What room in Montgomery's family home now appears to be most lived in?

4. Who is Randolph?

5. How does Montgomery feel about Randolph when he meets him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the irony about Montgomery meeting his wife through Anna Behrens?

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

3. Montgomery describes his father and spends a lot time focusing on his mustache. Why does Montgomery do this?

4. Do you think the fight between Montgomery and his mother was solely based on the selling of the paintings?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. The reader is introduced to Montgomery's counsel. Montgomery likes him because of his fierceness in the courtroom. Why would he like someone for this characteristic?

8. Is Montgomery's mother's reasoning for selling the paintings understandable? Why or why not?

9. What is the relationship between Charlie French and Montgomery?

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

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