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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Englishmen described?
(a) As losers.
(b) As artists.
(c) As exiles.
(d) As loners.

2. What is one natural scene described in Chapter 1?
(a) The desert.
(b) The foothills.
(c) The farms.
(d) The snow on the mountains.

3. What is one word that one of the Englishmen might use to describe Americans?
(a) Decent.
(b) Miserly.
(c) Conceited.
(d) Kind.

4. Whose nationality is changed from Spanish to Celtic?
(a) Dennis.
(b) Sir Francis.
(c) Miss Poski.
(d) Juanita del Pablo.

5. What does the receptionist ask Dennis that makes him visualize Sir Francis when Dennis finds him?
(a) If Sir Francis has a particular suit in which to be buried.
(b) If Sir Francis is white.
(c) Nothing.
(d) If Sir Francis had any disfigurements Dennis would like hidden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dennis Barlow taking care of according to the Englishmen talking?

2. Besides being fiction, how else is the story described in the paragraph that is set before Chapter 1?

3. Who does the author suggest return the book unread to where they got it?

4. Through what does Dennis have to pass in order to reach the reception area in the mortuary?

5. About whom does Dennis come to Hollywood to do a screenplay?

(see the answer key)

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