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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Aimée owe the shaping of her brain and body?
(a) A mild birth defect.
(b) Being raised in southern California.
(c) Being raised in a strict Catholic home.
(d) A mishap when she is a toddler.

2. What does Dennis find shockingly tasteless?
(a) His first nutburger.
(b) Aimée's dress.
(c) Aimée's engagement to Mr. Joyboy.
(d) Aimée's hat.

3. What does the secretary tell Mr. Slump about Aimée?
(a) She has been duped by her finacee.
(b) Aimée has invited them to her wedding.
(c) Aimée has asked for a job.
(d) Aimée is moving back home.

4. Where is Dennis at the opening of Chapter 10?
(a) Aimée's apartment.
(b) The human mortuary.
(c) The Happier Hunting Groun.
(d) A cafe.

5. How is Mr. Slump's appearance?
(a) Badly shaven.
(b) Ill shaven.
(c) Bruised about the face.
(d) A black eye.

6. What gives Aimée no doubt of what she will write in her final letter to Guru Brahmin?
(a) The knowledge of Mr. Joyboy as genuine.
(b) The exposure of Dennis as a fake and liar.
(c) Her desire to do the right thing.
(d) Dennis' contrition.

7. What does Aimée tell Mr. Joyboy when he wants to celebrate with her?
(a) She is ill.
(b) She is engaged.
(c) She has a date.
(d) Her mother is ill.

8. What does Mr. Joyboy say about his mother's state of health when Aimée asks?
(a) She is failing fast.
(b) She has meet a nice gentleman.
(c) She is sad that Sambo has died.
(d) She is in robust health.

9. What does Mr. Joyboy begin to do?
(a) Shake Dennis awake.
(b) Cry.
(c) Hit Dennis.
(d) Plead with Aimée not to listen to Dennis.

10. Of what does Dennis remind Aimée?
(a) That she once loved him.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That she is an honorable woman.
(d) That she promised to marry him.

11. In what does Dennis seem unnaturally interested?
(a) A young lady in the coffee shop.
(b) Aimée's sister.
(c) Religion.
(d) The details of Aimée's work.

12. How does Mr. Joyboy fashion a smile on a corpse?
(a) With cotton balls.
(b) With pins.
(c) With cardboard under the lip.
(d) Sewing the lips in place.

13. What does Mr. Joyboy say might help Dennis?
(a) A respectable job.
(b) A police man.
(c) Some prison time.
(d) A literary agent.

14. What does Dennis tell Mr. Joyboy they can do that night?
(a) Bury Aimée.
(b) Dennis has not yet made a plan.
(c) Take Aimée's body and dump it out to sea.
(d) Cremate Aimée.

15. What does Dennis plagiarize?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Quotes.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Essays.

Short Answer Questions

1. What funeral does Aimée agree to go to on Wednesday?

2. Why does Dennis recite a poem?

3. Why does Mr. Slump drink whiskey?

4. What does Sir Ambrose urge Dennis to do?

5. Where is Mr. Slump when Aimée talks to him on the phone?

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