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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 is different about James and Ann in Chapter 11?
(a) They refuse to talk to each other.
(b) They both have the flu.
(c) They are romantically involved.
(d) They are deeply concerned with Charles.

2. In Chapter 8, what does David Keller suggest he and James do in Frankfurt?
(a) Get drunk.
(b) Visit an old monastery library.
(c) Watch American football.
(d) Take in a symphony.

3. In Chapter 10, where does James say he is traveling instead of Kuwait?
(a) Russia.
(b) China.
(c) Brazil.
(d) India.

4. Which of the following items is among the foods James and Eliades eat in Chapter 10?
(a) Brains.
(b) Feet.
(c) Genitals.
(d) Hair.

5. What does James think of in Chapter 11 as he deals with the passed out Hardeman?
(a) Springs in New York.
(b) Canadian winters.
(c) Autumn on Kouros.
(d) Summer camp in rural Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unfortunate incident happens on James's second day of driving with Tap in Chapter 8?

2. Why does Eliades say he wants to have dinner with James in Chapter 10?

3. What does Andahl refused to divulge about the cult in Chapter 9?

4. Where is Tap Axton living at the end of the novel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Del Nearing and Frank Volterra meet?

2. What offer does David Keller make James in Chapter 8, and how does James respond?

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

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

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

6. What does James Axton learn in Bombay early in Chapter 11?

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

8. According to Rowser in Chapter 11, what changes are happening in the Northeast Group.

9. How does James follow up on his Mani discovery later in Chapter 8?

10. What unfortunate occurrence happens to David Keller in Chapter 13?

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