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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aimée recount in a letter?
(a) Her excitement that Mr. Joyboy asks her to marry him.
(b) Her engagement to Dennis.
(c) Her desire to become the best mortician around.
(d) Her depression that she has to return to Kansas.

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

4. What does Mr. Joyboy ask Aimée?
(a) If her fiancee is a professor.
(b) If her fiancee is an Englishman.
(c) If her fiancee works at the studio.
(d) If her fiancee has a sister with red hair.

5. What does Dennis do when Mr. Joyboy arrives?
(a) Tries to hide.
(b) Tells Aimée he'll be back.
(c) Sends the trainee out of the room.
(d) Offers him a seat and some coffee.

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

7. Why are the other cosmeticians jealous of Aimée?
(a) Mr. Joyboy has promoted her.
(b) Her bodies have better smiles than theirs.
(c) Mr. Kenworthy has promoted her.
(d) Dennis has been paying a lot of attention to her.

8. What does Dennis continue to send Aimée?
(a) Poems.
(b) Cards.
(c) Information about England.
(d) Flowers.

9. What does Dennis realize about Mr. Joyboy's ramblings?
(a) Mr. Joyboy probably killed Aimée in a fit of rage.
(b) Mr. Joyboy is not totally sane.
(c) Mr. Joyboy intends to tell the police Dennis killed Aimée.
(d) Mr. Joyboy wants aid in disposing of Aimée's body.

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

11. What specific details does Mr. Joyboy offer Dennis?
(a) Aimée left behind a note blaming Dennis.
(b) Aimée injected herself with cyanide.
(c) He is suing Dennis for plagerization.
(d) None.

12. What is Dennis doing at the opening of Chapter 10?
(a) Arguing with Aimée.
(b) Arguing with Mr. Schultz.
(c) Training his replacement.
(d) Sleeping.

13. What does Dennis tell Mr. Schultz Dennis needs?
(a) A raise.
(b) A recommendation.
(c) A letter of release from his contract.
(d) A new office.

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

15. What does Sir Ambrose say to Dennis when Sir Ambrose arrives at the pet mortuary?
(a) That he received Dennis' card about becoming a minister.
(b) That the police are asking about Dennis.
(c) That Dennis has been chosen as captain of the cricket team.
(d) That Dennis cannot marry a mortician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Slump do incessantly?

2. What does Mr. Slump not know?

3. In what does Dennis seem unnaturally interested?

4. What advice does Mr. Slump give Aimée?

5. What does Dennis tell Mr. Schultz?

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