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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How is Mr. Slump's appearance?
(a) Badly shaven.
(b) A black eye.
(c) Ill shaven.
(d) Bruised about the face.
2. Who does Mr. Slump say was being honorable?
(a) Mr. Joyboy.
(b) Mr. Kenworthy.
(c) Sir Ambrose.
(d) Dennis.
3. What does Mr. Joyboy begin to do?
(a) Plead with Aimée not to listen to Dennis.
(b) Shake Dennis awake.
(c) Cry.
(d) Hit Dennis.
4. What does Sir Ambrose urge Dennis to do?
(a) Find a new girlfriend.
(b) Go back to England.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Get a new job.
5. What of Aimée's is/are more lofty than her brain or body?
(a) Her beliefs.
(b) Her spirit.
(c) Her hopes.
(d) Her outlook.
6. Where is Mr. Slump when Aimée talks to him on the phone?
(a) A bar.
(b) His home.
(c) The newspaper office.
(d) A library.
7. What does Aimée recount in a letter?
(a) Her engagement to Dennis.
(b) Her desire to become the best mortician around.
(c) Her excitement that Mr. Joyboy asks her to marry him.
(d) Her depression that she has to return to Kansas.
8. What has Aimée decided to do?
(a) Marry Mr. Joyboy.
(b) Marry Dennis anyway.
(c) Look for someone besides her present two suitors.
(d) Join a convent.
9. What has Aimée been chosen to do?
(a) Lead a recitation of a poem for the dead mother and child.
(b) Play the organ at a service.
(c) Become the company's first female embalmer.
(d) Sing at a service.
10. What does Mr. Joyboy fear?
(a) Mr. Joyboy will be arrested for murder.
(b) His career will be ruined in the scandal.
(c) Dennis will convince Aimée that Mr. Joyboy is no good for her.
(d) Aimée will run off with Dennis.
11. What gets a big notice in the mortician's trade journals?
(a) The engagement of Mr. Joyboy and Aimée.
(b) A new embalming technique Mr. Joyboy develops.
(c) The takeover of Whispering Glades by a large conglomerate.
(d) A new cosmetic technique Aimée develops.
12. What does the secretary say about Aimée's decision?
(a) It may turn out for the best.
(b) It is an excellent choice.
(c) It can have nothing but disasterous consequences.
(d) It is the wrong choice.
13. What does Mr. Slump say about what women cannot seem to do?
(a) Concede defeat to another woman.
(b) Let a man go.
(c) Stand up for herself.
(d) Pick the right man.
14. Where does Mr. Joyboy arrange for Sambo's disposal?
(a) He buries the cat himself.
(b) Happier Hunting Ground.
(c) The vet's office.
(d) He buries the ferret himself.
15. Of what does Dennis remind Aimée?
(a) That she is an honorable woman.
(b) That she once loved him.
(c) That she promised to marry him.
(d) Nothing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Mr. Slump do incessantly?
2. What does Dennis realize about Mr. Joyboy's ramblings?
3. What specific details does Mr. Joyboy offer Dennis?
4. Why is Mr. Slump disgusted?
5. Why are the other cosmeticians jealous of Aimée?
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