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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 happens inside the television studio during the talk show?
(a) A surprise guest arrives.
(b) People love the show.
(c) A programmed bomb goes off and kills everyone.
(d) Programmers schedule more talk shows.

2. Why does Clark Kent suddenly break off his conversation with Bruce?
(a) Clark Kent hears Soviet planes flying out of range.
(b) Clark Kent hears the cries of a lost mother.
(c) Clark Kent is hungry.
(d) Clark Kent is angry at what Bruce tells him.

3. Posing as a detective, Batman asks the new commissioner about what event?
(a) The suicide of a congressman.
(b) The congressman's re-election.
(c) The Joker's release.
(d) Batman's vigilantism.

4. Who retires from Gotham's police force?
(a) A friend of Bruce Wayne.
(b) Commissioner Loeb.
(c) Commissioner Gordon.
(d) Commissioner Yindel.

5. After Gotham City spirals into a den of violence, who does Commissioner Gordon take in to meet with the Mutants' leader?
(a) Batman.
(b) Superman.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The president.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Batman and Robin go to locate the Joker after he leaves Selina Kyle's escort service?

2. What does the Mutants' leader do in front of Commissioner Gordon?

3. Where do the commissioner and the cops go to look for Batman at the county fair?

4. With whom does Batman share his plan to render the Mutants helpless?

5. After returning from the fair, whose face does Batman continue to see over and over again?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the last confrontation between The Joker and Batman in the House of Mirrors ironic?

2. What does Superman mean when he refers to Bruce's "wild obsession"?

3. Why does the author interchange the scenes of Captain Yindl arriving on her first day as commissioner and Commission Gordon's and Carrie's beginning with Batman?

4. How does Batman utilize his brain instead of his brawn when fighting the Mutants' leader a second time?

5. Why does Superman find it important that the "...humans not be reminded that they walk amongst giants..."?

6. What is the irony of the Mutants changing their name to "Sons of Batman"?

7. Why does the knowledge that Batman keeps count of the scores of people The Joker has killed make the Joker happy?

8. How does Batman feel that Jason, the last Robin, was a good solider and honored him?

9. Why does Batman think of Robin as a good soldier as she falls from the broken cable?

10. How does the author build suspense leading up to Clark Kent's arrival in Gotham City?

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