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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Andy enjoy going to restaurants and drugstores?
(a) During the afternoon.
(b) In the middle of the night.
(c) On the weekends.
(d) In the morning.

2. Why does Andy want B to order room service?
(a) He is too tired to order it himself.
(b) He likes to be in control.
(c) He is too lazy.
(d) He is too insecure to do it on his own.

3. How is Andy no different from most other people?
(a) He loves to eat.
(b) He is nervous about getting married.
(c) He has been in love many times.
(d) In his denial of death or unwillingness to discuss it.

4. Where are Andy and B staying?
(a) At the Hotel Mirabeau in Nice.
(b) At the Hotel Mirabeau in Marseilles.
(c) At the Hotel Mirabeau in Monte Carlo.
(d) At the Hotel Mirabeau in Paris.

5. Does this last possible reason for the brevity of this chapter make him more human and average?
(a) Probably not.
(b) No.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

6. According to Andy, everyone should live in what?
(a) A space filled with his art.
(b) A completely empty, clean space.
(c) A cluttered but comfortable space.
(d) A space filled with art.

7. When do Damian and B feel that a person grows potentially more depressed?
(a) As they become wealthier.
(b) With each friend they lose.
(c) The closer they live to a large city.
(d) With each year.

8. What is significant about the abrupt style in a book filled with rambling statements?
(a) It mimics the sometimes abrupt nature of death.
(b) It is less important than the rest of the book.
(c) It shows how much more important this chapter is than the others.
(d) It is unnatural.

9. About what is this chapter?
(a) Death.
(b) Food.
(c) Love.
(d) Marriage.

10. Andy's Torino art dealer phones, inviting Andy and B to what?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) A performance.

11. Where would B prefer to shop?
(a) Bloomingdale's.
(b) Target.
(c) Sears.
(d) Macy's.

12. When B returns to the room, what happens to the conversation?
(a) It ends completely.
(b) It moves to the topic of growing wiser with age.
(c) It becomes very heated.
(d) It continues.

13. Why does Andy consider himself to be truly American?
(a) Because of his penchant for buying things.
(b) Because he is an American artist.
(c) Because he was born in the United States.
(d) Because of his accent.

14. Andy is immediately annoyed by the direction of the conversation and tells Damian what?
(a) He would like her to leave.
(b) Being an artist is just another job.
(c) He does not want to talk about this topic.
(d) He would rather not talk to her.

15. What do B and Andy discuss?
(a) The cost of food.
(b) The price of underwear.
(c) The law of diminishing returns regarding socks.
(d) The need for beauty products to cover blemishes and the fact that the products also cause the blemishes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Andy try to dissuade Damian?

2. What does Andy feel about change?

3. Is this chapter symbolic?

4. Can the brevity of the chapter be seen as a literary form?

5. A female B calls Andy. Why does Andy know who it is on the other end of the line before Andy picks up the phone?

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