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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Dennis' boss?
(a) Mr. Poleski.
(b) Mr. Shultz.
(c) No one; he is a freelance writer.
(d) No one; he owns the pet funeral home.

2. Who is in Sir Francis' office when he arrives at the studio?
(a) No one.
(b) A young man.
(c) A young woman.
(d) One of his bosses.

3. Who is Sir Francis Hinsley?
(a) The younger of the two Englishmen.
(b) The elder of the two Englishmen.
(c) A person about whom the two Englishmen are making disparaging remarks.
(d) The director of a play in which the two Englishmen are acting.

4. What do the various zones on the grounds in the funeral home represent?
(a) The varying costs of burial.
(b) The separation of race and nationality.
(c) Where famous versus unknown people are buried.
(d) The cremated versus those whose bodies are buried.

5. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?
(a) A little nightmare.
(b) A look at the rotten core of life.
(c) A cloudy view of reality.
(d) A slice of the good life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ambrose Abercrombie?

2. About what does Ambrose admonish Sir Francis?

3. How is the cosmetician described?

4. What did Dennis find difficult to believe when he first worked in Hollywood studios?

5. How high are the letters carved into the marble slab at the funeral home?

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