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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jim's mother work?
(a) The tobacco factory.
(b) The phone factory.
(c) The pie factory.
(d) The bike factory.

2. What does Jim mother keep her house as clean as?
(a) A brewery.
(b) A hay loft.
(c) A new pin.
(d) A harem.

3. What does the man want the narrator to do when he has the rope around his neck?
(a) Kick away the chair.
(b) Close his eyes.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Run away.

4. What does Jim tell his mother he has been through in the last six months?
(a) Hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Barbed wire.
(d) War.

5. What member of the Notts County team does Lennox think is a fool?
(a) The striker.
(b) The captain.
(c) The central defender.
(d) The goalkeeper.

6. What is Jim's fiance's name?
(a) Phylis.
(b) Deirdrie.
(c) Rose.
(d) Denise.

7. What does Fred say he is not one to grumble about?
(a) His job.
(b) His grub.
(c) His wife.
(d) His team.

8. What kind of food do the advertising boards advertise?
(a) Chicken wings.
(b) Beef steaks.
(c) Pork-pies.
(d) Steak-pies.

9. What can four pence buy a pound of?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Beef.
(c) Scones.
(d) Treacle.

10. What is the top and back of Bert's head padded by?
(a) Fat.
(b) Hair transplants.
(c) Overgrown hair.
(d) Moles.

11. What did Jim's father die of?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Black death.
(d) Scurvy.

12. What has Lennox's wife cooked for dinner?
(a) Steak.
(b) Sardines.
(c) Kippers.
(d) Eggs and chips.

13. What is the narrator's friend watching at the pictures?
(a) Penelope Pitstop.
(b) Tarzan.
(c) Lassie.
(d) Jungle Jim.

14. How does the narrator say he would get to Glasgow?
(a) By train.
(b) By bike.
(c) By hitch-hiking.
(d) By bus.

15. What is the first thing Jim's mother does when Jim returns home?
(a) Washes his clothes.
(b) Screams at him.
(c) Makes him a cup of tea.
(d) Makes him a big meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the man has a face like?

2. What does the man order the narrator to do before he hangs himself?

3. What does the narrator say the goalkeeper turns into?

4. Where does the man say the boys will be sent if they are caught begging?

5. Why does Lennox have a feeling Notts County will lose?

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