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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When will the most important studio figures visit Sir Francis?
(a) They've been coming through all day.
(b) In the evening after work.
(c) The day of the service.
(d) Never.

2. Through what does Dennis have to pass in order to reach the reception area in the mortuary?
(a) Nothing; the reception area is right when he walks inside the building.
(b) Several florist rooms.
(c) Several rooms full of grieving persons.
(d) Several rooms of caskets.

3. Who is Mr. Joyboy?
(a) The man who will make Sir Francis look wonderful.
(b) A young man who comes in to buy a casket for his wife and child.
(c) The janitor at the funeral home.
(d) An elderly man who comes in to buy a casket for his wife.

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

5. What church does the recording that Dennis plays discuss?
(a) St. Peter-without-the-walls.
(b) St. Paul's.
(c) Church of the Saved.
(d) St. Henry's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Juanita del Pablo?

2. Who is Barlow?

3. What are the principal settings for this novel?

4. About whom does Dennis come to Hollywood to do a screenplay?

5. How was his book received?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aimée reveal about herself when she encounters Dennis on the island?

2. What does the recording say about the Church of St. Peter-without-the-walls in Oxford?

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

4. How does Barlow compare the facades of Hollywood sets to the front of Whispering Glades?

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

6. What are the English expatriates talking about at the cricket club?

7. What does Aimée do to Sir Francis?

8. Describe the Orchid Room when Dennis visits Whispering Glades the day before Sir Francis' funeral.

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

10. Who arrives and what does he say to Sir Francis?

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