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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the principal settings for this novel?
(a) A baseball stadium and Hollywood screen set.
(b) A coffee shop and a lawyer's office.
(c) The homes of the three main characters.
(d) Two funeral homes.

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

3. What does Barlow go to pick up while he is at work?
(a) A dead cat.
(b) A dead parrot.
(c) A dead dog.
(d) A dead man.

4. Where is Sir Francis' body when Dennis comes home one night?
(a) Hanging from the rafters.
(b) Dead in the bathtub.
(c) With his head in the gas stove.
(d) With the car running in the garage.

5. Who is Wilbur Kenworthy?
(a) An embalmer at the Eternal Rest home.
(b) A famous poet.
(c) A man who dreams of happiness.
(d) A homeless man whose corpse is being prepared at the funeral home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being piped through the speakers in the funeral home?

2. What is one word that one of the Englishmen might use to describe Americans?

3. Who is Sir Francis Hinsley?

4. What are the Englishmen drinking?

5. What has Barlow done recently?

(see the answer key)

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