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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Everett's weekly column for the university's newspaper?
(a) Give Chance a Peace.
(b) Not a Chance.
(c) Peace, Politics, and People.
(d) A Peaceful Chance.

2. What nickname does Everett gain during his time at college?
(a) Churchill Chance.
(b) Hippie Churchill.
(c) Hippie Einstein.
(d) Megafarce.

3. What summer job does Everett take in Victoria to help him get through the winter in Book Five?
(a) He writes a column for the local paper.
(b) He works at a car wash.
(c) He buses tables at a trendy tourist cafe.
(d) He works a tavern.

4. Where do they first find cancer in Hugh?
(a) His lymphatic system.
(b) His prostate.
(c) His left lung.
(d) His liver.

5. Who recites the Lord's Prayer and several scriptures after Hugh's death?
(a) Laura.
(b) Irwin.
(c) Kincaid.
(d) Peter.

6. What do they serve for dinner at Everett's penitentiary when reporters come?
(a) Steak.
(b) Hamburgers.
(c) Lasagna.
(d) Spaghetti.

7. How does Everett entice Tasha to come and visit him?
(a) He tells her he found a Russian relic.
(b) He writes her a series of love poems.
(c) He sends her a plane ticket to Canada.
(d) He offers to get her a job in the area.

8. What favor does Irwin ask of his family while he is in Vietnam?
(a) He asks them to pay for Linda's college.
(b) He asks if Linda can move in with them.
(c) He asks them to adopt the baby he is expecting with Linda.
(d) He asks that they write him weekly and visit Linda in Seattle.

9. What job does Irwin get when he first begins college?
(a) Football water boy.
(b) Campus groundskeeper.
(c) Grocery shelves stocker.
(d) Waiter.

10. How does Hugh request to be buried?
(a) He wants to be cremated.
(b) He asks to be buried at sea.
(c) He wants to be buried next to his mother.
(d) He has no preference about his burial.

11. After whom is Nash, the baby of Irwin and Linda, named?
(a) A character from a novel.
(b) A famous baseball player.
(c) A relative of Linda's.
(d) Irwin's car where he was conceived.

12. Who helps Hugh answer all of his mail as his secretary?
(a) Bet.
(b) Freddy.
(c) Peter.
(d) Kincaid.

13. When Peter goes to visit Everett in Seattle on his way back to Harvard, where do they meet?
(a) At the library.
(b) At a bar called Van Gogos.
(c) At a concert.
(d) At the airport.

14. Why does Everett miss the message about Irwin's wedding and draft into the army?
(a) He gets the message, but he forgets about it.
(b) He is at a week long sit-in.
(c) His roomate doesn't give him the message.
(d) He does not have a phone.

15. What does Everett burn after he struggles to recapture his joy of reading in Book Five?
(a) His library card.
(b) His journal.
(c) His favorite book.
(d) All of his textbooks from college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Natasha give for leaving Everett?

2. What is the name of the town where Peter and T Bar seek help in India?

3. Who opens their own post office box for a private correspondence with Everett?

4. Who comes to take away Hugh's body?

5. Who comes up with the plan to stand vigil outside the hospital until Irwin is released?

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