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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Dennis' offerings do?
(a) Boosts Aimée's confidence.
(b) Smooth over arguments.
(c) Continue to keep Aimée interested in him.
(d) Make Aimée suspicious as to where he's getting his money.

3. What is Mr. Schultz's response to Dennis' request?
(a) He says business is not good enough.
(b) He doesn't think Dennis deserves a recommendation.
(c) There is no other office space.
(d) He thinks Dennis should finish out his contract.

4. What does Mr. Slump say the poet obviously has?
(a) Character defects.
(b) Honroable intentions.
(c) A need for women to take care of him.
(d) A crush on Aimée.

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

6. What of Aimée's is/are more lofty than her brain or body?
(a) Her hopes.
(b) Her beliefs.
(c) Her spirit.
(d) Her outlook.

7. What does Dennis ask Erroll Bartholomew?
(a) How to perform a marriage ceremony.
(b) How to get a job with the State.
(c) How to become a non-sectarian minister.
(d) Why dead people always seem to be smiling.

8. Why is Mr. Slump disgusted?
(a) A young woman writes that she loves a man who is thirty years older than she.
(b) His secretary has fallen in love with the other Guru Brahmin.
(c) A young man writes that he loves another young man.
(d) There is another letter from Aimée.

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

10. Who is Guru Brahmin?
(a) A Buddhist monk.
(b) A clown who works at the pet cemetery.
(c) A columnist.
(d) The man who will officiate at the service for Sir Francis.

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

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

13. What does Aimée not realize about the poems Dennis gives her?
(a) They all sound alike.
(b) They do not mention love.
(c) They are stolen.
(d) They do not mention marriage.

14. What does Sir Ambrose say will damage the credibility of Englishmen in Hollywood?
(a) For Dennis to marry a mortician.
(b) For Dennis not to head the cricket team.
(c) For Dennis to become a non-sectarian minister.
(d) For Dennis to go into acting.

15. Who does Mr. Slump say was being honorable?
(a) Mr. Kenworthy.
(b) Sir Ambrose.
(c) Dennis.
(d) Mr. Joyboy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Dennis seem unnaturally interested?

2. What does Mr. Joyboy ask Aimée?

3. Why does Mr. Slump drink whiskey?

4. What is Mr. Joyboy's mother like?

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

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