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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stephen wander around looking for Kate at the market?
(a) On foot.
(b) On bicycle.
(c) In a car.
(d) In a bus.

2. What is Julie's profession?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A writer.
(c) A violinist.
(d) A teacher.

3. Whose life is Stephen's first story loosely based on, at the age of eleven?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Mark.
(c) Thelma.
(d) Turner.

4. What does Stephen wait for Julie to do?
(a) To forgive him.
(b) To fight with him.
(c) To contact him.
(d) To answer his questions.

5. What was Stephen doing when Kate disappeared?
(a) Tying his shoelaces.
(b) Locking the car.
(c) Peeing in the bathroom.
(d) Paying for items.

6. How is Kate lost?
(a) She is kidnapped.
(b) She disappears in a crowd.
(c) She gets stuck in a tornado.
(d) She gets lost under a gate.

7. What does Stephen receive for his first book as encouragement to change the genre?
(a) A big check.
(b) A promotion.
(c) A note of praise.
(d) A new house.

8. In Stephen's first story, what does a young man spend with two female cousins?
(a) A lot of money.
(b) A winter.
(c) A chest of gold.
(d) An idyllic summer.

9. Who does Stephen come to learn has resigned from life in politics?
(a) Charles.
(b) Turner.
(c) Thelma.
(d) Malbert.

10. Who does Stephen encounter in a yellow frock at the train station?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A young girl.
(c) An old man.
(d) A young boy.

11. Where does Julie spend most of her time mourning the loss of Kate?
(a) In a chair.
(b) In bed.
(c) On the beach.
(d) Under the house.

12. Who does Julie ignore after Kate's disappearance?
(a) Mark.
(b) Claire.
(c) Kristen.
(d) Stephen.

13. What is Stephen's first book called, originally?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Hashish.
(c) Turner.
(d) Lemonade.

14. Who do(es) the person/people that Stephen sees in the window at the pub remind him of?
(a) His parents.
(b) His brother.
(c) His friend.
(d) His mother.

15. When Julie had come back from Chilterns, where did she meet Stephen for a brief period?
(a) An old cottage.
(b) A condo.
(c) An apartment.
(d) A subway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stephen think that men are certain they are doing right with regard to their places in life and their abilities?

2. What does Stephen think Julie is doing to herself after Kate's disappearance?

3. When Stephen is worried that Kate might come when he is gone, what does his friend leave behind to comfort him?

4. Who does Stephen meet with at Gott who convinces him to change the genre of his book?

5. In what genre does the editor of Gott suggest putting Stephen's first book?

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