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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had not been announced?
(a) Mr. Slump's pending divorce.
(b) Aimée's engagement to Dennis.
(c) Aimée's engagement to Mr. Joyboy.
(d) Mr. Slump's pending promotion.

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

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

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

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

6. What is Mr. Slump's mental state?
(a) Excited.
(b) Mildly amused.
(c) Scarcely sober.
(d) Exuberant.

7. To whom does Mr. Joyboy want to introduce Aimée?
(a) His board of trustees.
(b) No one.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His mother.

8. What does Mr. Slump do incessantly?
(a) Smokes.
(b) Blows his nose.
(c) Sucks on peppermint sticks.
(d) Jokes.

9. What has Dennis done for Aimée?
(a) Taken her to the movies a number of times.
(b) Send her clients.
(c) Written her wonderful poems.
(d) Helped paint her living room.

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

11. What does Mr. Joyboy say Dennis must do?
(a) Help Mr. Joyboy figure out what to do.
(b) Pray to God for forgiveness.
(c) Take the job in the other city.
(d) Give Mr. Joyboy Dennis' word that he will leave Aimée alone.

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

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

14. What has Aimée been chosen to do?
(a) Become the company's first female embalmer.
(b) Lead a recitation of a poem for the dead mother and child.
(c) Sing at a service.
(d) Play the organ at a service.

15. What does Mr. Joyboy tell Dennis?
(a) Mr. Joyboy is suing Dennis.
(b) Aimée has killed herself.
(c) Aimée is ill.
(d) Mr. Joyboy has a job opening in a new city for Dennis if Dennis will go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dennis realize about Mr. Joyboy's ramblings?

2. Where does Aimée take Dennis a few days after her dinner date with Mr. Joyboy?

3. What does Dennis continue to send Aimée?

4. Who is Sambo?

5. To what does Aimée owe the shaping of her brain and body?

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