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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sir Francis' immediate supervisor tell him to do?
(a) See the next highest boss.
(b) Start a new screenplay.
(c) Come back in one week.
(d) Get rid of his Juanita work.

3. What did Sir Francis once work as?
(a) A diplomat.
(b) The chief scriptwriter for a studio.
(c) A cartoonist.
(d) An accountant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing said to be on the building of the funeral home?

2. About what does Ambrose admonish Sir Francis?

3. Who is Sir Francis Hinsley?

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

5. What does Barlow go to pick up while he is at work?

(see the answer key)

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