View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Sir Francis' body?
(a) Already at the church.
(b) In the slumber room.
(c) At the police headquarters for a final disposition.
(d) In the Iris room.

2. Who is Sir Francis Hinsley?
(a) The director of a play in which the two Englishmen are acting.
(b) The elder of the two Englishmen.
(c) A person about whom the two Englishmen are making disparaging remarks.
(d) The younger of the two Englishmen.

3. Where is Sir Francis' body when Dennis comes home one night?
(a) With the car running in the garage.
(b) Dead in the bathtub.
(c) Hanging from the rafters.
(d) With his head in the gas stove.

4. Who is delivering Sir Francis' corpse to the cosmetician?
(a) Mr. Joyboy.
(b) Miss Lovesick.
(c) Mr. Kenworthy.
(d) Mr. Schultz.

5. What is poorly received by the studio heads?
(a) A screen-play about a pet coyote.
(b) The biography that Sir Francis writes.
(c) The new anti-communist guidelines.
(d) A screen-play about a large woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in Sir Francis' office when he arrives at the studio?

2. What poet does Dennis quote?

3. What does Barlow go to pick up while he is at work?

4. When is the first time Dennis Barlow sees a human corpse?

5. Where does Dennis decide Sir Francis should go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the receptionist say to Dennis about burials?

2. Who comes through Whispering Glades to view Sir Francis' and who does not come through and why?

3. About what does the author warn readers?

4. What does Sir Ambrose ask of Dennis and what does Dennis find out about Sir Francis as a writer?

5. What does Aimée think of Mr. Joyboy's work?

6. What racist question does the secretary ask Dennis and how does he respond?

7. How does Dennis compare his present job with his time in Italy?

8. What does the opening to Chapter 1 describe?

9. What was the pinnacle of Sir Francis' life?

10. What does Mr. Joyboy say about working on infants?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 694 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample