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

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 separation of race and nationality.
(c) The varying costs of burial.
(d) Where famous versus unknown people are buried.

2. Why is the person not pleased about Dennis' responsibilities?
(a) He thinks an older man should be responsible.
(b) She wanted to pick out Sir Francis' coffin.
(c) The Happier Hunting Ground is very busy.
(d) She wanted to spit on her deceased ex-husband.

3. What is Dennis Barlow taking care of according to the Englishmen talking?
(a) His mother.
(b) Sir Francis' body.
(c) Hiring a new worker.
(d) His grandmother.

4. Through what does Dennis have to pass in order to reach the reception area in the mortuary?
(a) Nothing; the reception area is right when he walks inside the building.
(b) Several rooms of caskets.
(c) Several rooms full of grieving persons.
(d) Several florist rooms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the cosmetician described?

2. What does Barlow find difficult to believe about the funeral home's structure?

3. At one time, what was Sir Francis the only one of in Hollywood?

4. What does the receptionist ask Dennis that makes him visualize Sir Francis when Dennis finds him?

5. What does a porter announce?

(see the answer key)

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