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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. How is the cosmetician described?
(a) As vampirish.
(b) As the consummate blond.
(c) As dark haired, pale, and greenish eyes.
(d) As gothic.

2. Who is Juanita del Pablo?
(a) A novelist.
(b) A waitress.
(c) An actress.
(d) A Mexican opera singer.

3. What does Sir Francis' immediate supervisor tell him to do?
(a) Start a new screenplay.
(b) Get rid of his Juanita work.
(c) See the next highest boss.
(d) Come back in one week.

4. What is the base like upon which Sir Francis' coffin is resting?
(a) Polished marble.
(b) Covered in flowers.
(c) Bare.
(d) Polished maple.

5. Who is Wilbur Kenworthy?
(a) A famous poet.
(b) A homeless man whose corpse is being prepared at the funeral home.
(c) An embalmer at the Eternal Rest home.
(d) A man who dreams of happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dennis decide Sir Francis should go?

2. What is Dennis Barlow taking care of according to the Englishmen talking?

3. Why does Aimée need to get photographs quickly of Sir Francis?

4. What is one thing said to be on the building of the funeral home?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aimée do to Sir Francis?

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

3. Why does Sir Ambrose think Sir Francis loses his job?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who is the cosmetician and what does she tell Dennis?

(see the answer keys)

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