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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What response does Henry get when he calls Melanie?
(a) He is rebuffed.
(b) They have a bittersweet conversation about their past together.
(c) She wants to fight with him.
(d) She invites him over.

2. How do Henry and his brother lose their pay?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Their father took it.
(c) They misplaced it.
(d) It was stolen.

3. What is Henry annoyed by after Elaine leaves?
(a) The neighbor's music.
(b) The light coming in the windows.
(c) The refrigerator.
(d) The television.

4. What is the one condition to Red being able to play?
(a) He has to have his lucky cleats.
(b) He has to have all his teammates with him.
(c) He has to have his favorite glove.
(d) His brother has to play, too.

5. What does Henry find when he wakes up after the party?
(a) The house is on fire.
(b) Myra.
(c) The party is still going on.
(d) Everyone is gone.

6. What does Henry hear when he wakes up, in Chapter 3?
(a) Dogs barking.
(b) Melanie's voice.
(c) Elaine's voice.
(d) Military helicopters.

7. What does Henry remember loving in high school?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Football.
(c) His teachers.
(d) Watching girls.

8. Who is Van Hoss?
(a) A friend of Henry's.
(b) An old employer of Henry's.
(c) A rival for Henry's first wife.
(d) Henry's father's friend.

9. Where is Henry's home away from home?
(a) The Library.
(b) The Dirty Shame Saloon.
(c) The Crossroads Bar.
(d) The Dew Drop Inn.

10. How did the game Henry and Will and their friends played against their rivals end?
(a) Henry's team won.
(b) The rival team won.
(c) In a tie.
(d) The game was never finished.

11. How does Henry respond when he was called back to work from a smoke break?
(a) He goes back guiltily as soon as he is called.
(b) He goes back at his leisure.
(c) He doesn't always go back.
(d) He goes back resentfully.

12. What does Joe warn Henry not to do?
(a) Shoot rabbits.
(b) Steal coal.
(c) Disobey his father.
(d) Ride the train.

13. Who was Milly Cornflower Lightcap?
(a) A medicine woman.
(b) Henry's mother.
(c) Henry's sister.
(d) Henry's grandmother.

14. What does Henry do in his irritation?
(a) Shoots his neighbor's window.
(b) Shoots the television.
(c) Shoots the window.
(d) Shoots the refrigerator.

15. What does Henry think about doing while he is driving?
(a) Killing himself.
(b) Returning to Melanie.
(c) Returning to Elaine.
(d) Euthanizing the dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Myra's response to Henry's new job?

2. What does Henry do after firing his shot?

3. What does Henry do when he wakes up, in Chapter 7?

4. Who does Henry think of as he nears Albuquerque?

5. What does Henry discover when he calls work, in Chapter 3?

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