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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What funeral does Aimée agree to go to on Wednesday?
(a) Sambo's.
(b) Mr. Joyboy's grandfather's.
(c) Sir Ambrose's.
(d) Mr. Joyboy's mother's.

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

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

6. What does Dennis give to Aimée that strikes her as familiar?
(a) A passage from Coleridge.
(b) A poem about daffodils.
(c) A poem about a river.
(d) A passage from Shakespere.

7. What is Jungle Venom?
(a) The name of the poem Dennis writes for Sir Francis' children.
(b) Perfume Aimée uses on her dinner date with Mr. Joyboy.
(c) The name of the poem Dennis writes for Aimée.
(d) The name of one of the books Mr. Francis wrote.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Aimée suggest Mr. Joyboy do?
(a) Not take a girlfriend home to meet his mother.
(b) Try to understand her feelings for Dennis.
(c) Ask out another one of the cosmetologists.
(d) Learn to walk with better posture.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in a foul mood?

2. What does Dennis tell Mr. Schultz?

3. What does Mr. Slump reply to his secretary's information about Aimée?

4. What does Dennis do as he is waiting for the fire to finish its work?

5. To where does Dennis follow Aimée?

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