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

2. What is Mr. Schultz's response to Dennis' request?
(a) He says business is not good enough.
(b) He thinks Dennis should finish out his contract.
(c) There is no other office space.
(d) He doesn't think Dennis deserves a recommendation.

3. What gets a big notice in the mortician's trade journals?
(a) A new cosmetic technique Aimée develops.
(b) The engagement of Mr. Joyboy and Aimée.
(c) The takeover of Whispering Glades by a large conglomerate.
(d) A new embalming technique Mr. Joyboy develops.

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

5. How is Guru Brahmin produced?
(a) One man writes the column and the other responds to personal letters.
(b) By rotating reporters.
(c) By whoever is not busy in the news room.
(d) Haphazardly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Joyboy say might help Dennis?

2. What does Aimée not realize about the poems Dennis gives her?

3. What does Dennis say is the drawback in Sir Ambrose's advice?

4. What does Dennis ask Erroll Bartholomew?

5. What does Sir Ambrose give Dennis before Sir Ambrose leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Joyboy say about his mother when Aimée asks about her and how does this conversation lead to another discovery about Dennis?

2. What is different between Aimée's first engagement compared to that of the one to Mr. Lovejoy?

3. Why does Aimée believe she will be writing her last letter to Guru Brahmin?

4. What does Mr. Slump not know at the moment and how does he react to another letter from Aimée?

5. Why is Mr. Joyboy fearful and what does Dennis realize Mr. Joyboy wants?

6. Describe Aimée's date with Mr. Joyboy to meet his mother.

7. What does Mr. Slump say about women regarding men?

8. Who arrives when Dennis is training his replacement at Happier Hunting Grounds, and what does Dennis do with his trainee?

9. What do Dennis and Aimée do at Lovers' Nook?

10. What does Dennis learn from Erroll Bartholomew?

(see the answer keys)

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