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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. What puts fear into James as he drives through the Mani in Chapter 8?
(a) A shadowy figure on the side of the road.
(b) A boulder with words on it.
(c) A large hail-storm.
(d) A configuration of logs.

2. What are Rowser's plans as he talks to James at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Leaving Northeast Group.
(b) Marrying his live-in girlfriend.
(c) Taking a position in Africa.
(d) Moving to China.

3. Who is Andahl?
(a) Another analyst from Northeast Group.
(b) Anand's friend.
(c) A cult member.
(d) Kathryn's new lover.

4. What does Orville Benton do in the final moments of the novel?
(a) He flees the church.
(b) He speaks in tongues.
(c) He sets fire to a bail of hay.
(d) He dies.

5. On what topic does James engage his landlord in Chapter 10?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Greek riots.
(c) Sex.
(d) The World Cup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city is James in at the end of Chapter 9?

2. Where is James at the beginning of Chapter 10?

3. In discussing the methodology of the cult in Chapter 9, what does Andahl insist the cultists are not?

4. What does Charles specifically - and mistakenly - congratulate James for in Chapter 13?

5. In Chapter 13, what reason does James think Eliades have for seducing Ann?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Owen look in Chapter 12?

2. What information does Andahl give about the cult in Chapter 9?

3. How did Del Nearing and Frank Volterra meet?

4. Describe the political argument that James and Eliades have in Chapter 10.

5. What prank do the Kellers and James try to play on Hardeman in Chapter 11?

6. How has Rowser become more paranoid in Chapter 11?

7. What unsettling information does Ann Maitland tell James in Chapter 10?

8. What is different about Chapter 14 from the rest of the novel?

9. In Chapter 8, what does James see in Mani that shakes him up?

10. What point about the murders does Andahl make in Chapter 9?

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