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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author suggest return the book unread to where they got it?
(a) Readers who are easily upset.
(b) Readers who hate America.
(c) Readers who hate animals.
(d) Readers who are bigots.

2. What does Dennis decide to do for the funeral?
(a) Write something to be read.
(b) Rent a suit.
(c) Get his hair cut.
(d) Wear one of Sir Francis' suits.

3. How long does it take Aimée to paint a body?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) Several hours.
(c) About an hour.
(d) 2 hours.

4. Who comes and goes all day to the funeral home?
(a) Visitors to the mother and child.
(b) Very few people.
(c) Visitors taking advantage of a two-for-one special the home is offereing.
(d) People who knew Sir Francis.

5. What does Aimée think when Dennis gasps?
(a) He thinks Sir Francis looks ridiculous.
(b) He is overcome with emotion at Sir Francis' death.
(c) He is ill.
(d) It is admiration of her work.

6. What do some English expatriates talk about in the last scene?
(a) A shake up in the studio.
(b) Their cricket club.
(c) Their soccer club.
(d) A new woman on the set.

7. What poet does Dennis quote?
(a) Shelly.
(b) Keats.
(c) Blake.
(d) Wordsworth.

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

9. Of what are the side aisles made in the church where Dennis visits?
(a) Steel and glass.
(b) Stucco.
(c) Cement.
(d) Balsa wood.

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

11. Who is on the other side of the door as Dennis is about to enter a room?
(a) Sir Francis' youngest child.
(b) Sir Ambrose.
(c) Mr. Schultz.
(d) Aimée.

12. Where does Dennis see a marble Mickey Mouse?
(a) In one of the side aisles of the church.
(b) In the graveyard.
(c) In a picture hanging in the vestry.
(d) In a picture hanging on a stone outside the front door.

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

14. What did Dennis find difficult to believe when he first worked in Hollywood studios?
(a) That the drama in real life was more melodramatic than in films.
(b) That the sets were mere facades.
(c) That the actors were so childish.
(d) That there was no loyalty whatsoever.

15. How does Sir Francis have to get to work?
(a) Walking.
(b) A studio car comes and gets him.
(c) A cab.
(d) Bike.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Sir Ambrose's profession?

3. What has Barlow done recently?

4. When is the first time Dennis Barlow sees a human corpse?

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

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