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

2. What has actually happened to these missing items?
(a) They got burned in a fire.
(b) His mother sold them.
(c) They were stolen in a robbery.
(d) They were put into a vault.

3. As Montgomery is walking through the house, what does he realize are missing?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Antique furniture.
(d) Electronic equipment.

4. Who does Montgomery meet while in the Mediterranean that he finds interesting?
(a) He meets his soul mate.
(b) He meets his favorite actor.
(c) He meets the president of the United States.
(d) He meets the person that lent Randolph the money for his loan.

5. The day Montgomery goes to the hardware shop, he goes somewhere else instead of home. Where does he go?
(a) For a walk in the park.
(b) Sightseeing.
(c) A garage to buy a car.
(d) To a museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives Montgomery a feeling of grief as he stands in his mother's kitchen?

2. Who now has the missing items?

3. Who does Montgomery introduce the reader while speaking to the court?

4. After visiting Whitewater, what does Montgomery think of as he lays sleepless?

5. What does Montgomery insist he went to Whitewater to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Montgomery says that words are a luxury. Considering his current situation, how is this an example of foreshadowing?

4. Explain the symbolism of Montgomery's recurring dreams about his father.

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

6. What would be Montgomery's reasoning for introducing his alter ego, Billy Bunter, to the jury?

7. Why does the author switch back and forth from past to present?

8. 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?

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

10. What reasoning would Montgomery have for comparing Anna Behrens to a "lonely prisoner in her magic castle in need of rescuing"?

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