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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of car is the first one that slows down and asks about the crash between Kate and Dirk, then drives off without helping?
(a) A Chevy Camaro.
(b) A Dodge Viper.
(c) A Ford Focus.
(d) A Ford Sienna.

2. What is the boy that Dirk encounters in the attic room watching on television?
(a) Superman.
(b) Transformers.
(c) Bugs Bunny.
(d) Daffy Duck.

3. What is being delivered outside Dirk's house as he wakes up in the morning after the Heathrow incident?
(a) A pizza.
(b) A harpsichord.
(c) A vending machine.
(d) A giant cauldron.

4. How does Kate describe the color of the hospital paint?
(a) Garish.
(b) Plum.
(c) Anemic.
(d) Septic.

5. With what has Thor been attached to the floor?
(a) Superglue.
(b) Ropes.
(c) Jell-o.
(d) Chains.

6. What does Kate notice first about Thor when she encounters him in the street?
(a) His hair.
(b) His hammer.
(c) His eyes.
(d) His horns.

7. Who does the narrator say would not be impressed with the proportions in Dirk's bedroom?
(a) Rafael.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Michelangelo.

8. Why does Kate think the mechanic pawned the tow job off on his son?
(a) Because the accident is not bad enough.
(b) Because Dirk is with her.
(c) Because her car is old.
(d) Because she is an American.

9. Who wrote the book that Dirk stole from Sally Mills in the cafe?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Michael Creighton.
(c) Douglas Adams.
(d) Howard Bell.

10. How is the incident at Heathrow eventually classified by the media?
(a) As an Act of God.
(b) As a massacre of epic proportions.
(c) As a temporary setback.
(d) As an Apocalypse.

11. What is the name of Kate's neighbor?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Ellis.
(c) Neil.
(d) Job.

12. Who recorded "Hot Potato"?
(a) Seclusion of the Orion Scorpionic Monks.
(b) Rolling Stones.
(c) Anarchy's Midwife.
(d) Pugilism and the Third Autistic Cuckoo.

13. What does the waiter bring Dirk instead of his order?
(a) A Coke.
(b) A bill for a table of Germans.
(c) A hot dog on a stick.
(d) An herb omelette and a breadstick.

14. How did Kate's husband die?
(a) Choking on a cheeseburger in Hong Kong.
(b) In a plane crash over Idaho.
(c) Hailing a taxi in New York.
(d) Sailing the English Channel.

15. On the I Ching calculator, what represents any calculations above 4?
(a) A Suffusion of Yellow.
(b) Black screen.
(c) A Blue Screen Saver.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dealer is Kate's neighbor?

2. How is Odin described when Thor contemplates Toe Rag's insistence that he only does what Odin tells him to do?

3. Where is Kate's home?

4. What kind of wares does the shop that Dirk goes into sell?

5. After the crash, Kate tells Dirk that she has had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi _____.

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