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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. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, what does he switch his major to?
(a) Physics.
(b) Classical piano.
(c) Silent cinema.
(d) Actuarial science.

2. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, what book does Bobby read while he is on his dive job?
(a) Behemoth.
(b) Leviathan.
(c) The Portable Atheist.
(d) Man and Citizen.

3. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 5, where do Bobby and John go to have lunch?
(a) Mezcal.
(b) Arnaud's.
(c) The Black Sheep.
(d) Oberon's.

4. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 7, after Bobby leaves the agent's office, he thinks about his visit to his sister's mental hospital. What is the name of the mental hospital?
(a) Stella Maris.
(b) House of Gold.
(c) Tisch Hospital.
(d) Belleview Sanitarium.

5. In the italicized section of Chapter 6, what does the Kid want to show the girl?
(a) Pages from the Kid's diary.
(b) Some new chataquas.
(c) Templates from Base One.
(d) Some film reels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bobby tell Kline happened two year earlier at his grandmother's family house in Tennessee?

2. Bobby visits a person at Stella Maris. What religious historical figure does that person have a vision of?

3. In the italicized section of Chapter 7, what does the dummy in the trunk say his name is?

4. Who owns the restaurant or the building that the restaurant is in that Kline and Bobby go to?

5. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, in what year does Bobby arrive in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who visits Bobby while he is living alone in a shack by the beach? Why does the person who visits Bobby say that he is there?

2. Over the winter, Bobby has a dream of a doctor and a nurse showing him something and asking if Bobby wants to show that something to her. What is the thing that they are discussing and who is the "her"?

3. What happens to Bobby when goes to the jack-up rig?

4. Who shows up in the girl's recovery room? How do they look? What is the girl's response?

5. Why does the girl go to the hospital? Is her visit to the hospital successful?

6. After Bobby's meeting with the IRS agent, he meets up with Kline. What does Kline say about the shape of his own life and how is that a contrast to Bobby's life?

7. What is Bobby's response to the IRS agent at the post office?

8. In Chapter 5, when Bobby meets Sheddan for lunch, at the beginning of their conversation how does Sheddan describe Bobby as an archetypal figure?

9. What cathartic exclamations does Bobby make at the end of his visit with the person who comes to visit Bobby while Bobby is living alone in a shack by the beach?

10. In the opening of the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, where is Bobby and what is he doing?

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