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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Aimée Thanatogenos?
(a) Dennis' girlfriend.
(b) The receptionist at the funeral home.
(c) Dennis' sister-in-law.
(d) The cosmetician at the funeral home.

2. What poem is used at the Heart of the Bruce?
(a) One written by Wordsworth.
(b) One written by Browning.
(c) One written by Frost.
(d) One written by Robert Burns.

3. What is being piped through the speakers in the funeral home?
(a) "Hindu Love-song."
(b) "Amazing Grace."
(c) A musical rendition of the 23rd psalm.
(d) "Our Father."

4. What does Aimée occasionally think of a poem?
(a) It has bad grammar.
(b) It is too complex to understand.
(c) It is too long.
(d) It is risque.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sir Ambrose drop by?

2. What trophy is in the room where Dennis is escorted?

3. What does a porter announce?

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

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

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