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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Andy think about flying?
(a) He does not like it.
(b) He loves it.
(c) He does not mind it.
(d) He refuses to do it.

3. What could this chapter represent?
(a) Someone planning for wedding.
(b) Someone changing the topic of a conversation due to its uncomfortable nature.
(c) Someone meeting someone for the first time.
(d) Someone expressing his love for another.

4. What does Andy especially like getting and considers almost as a form of currency?
(a) Grocery lists.
(b) Receipts.
(c) Bills.
(d) Change.

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

6. What happens to Andy's attempts to convince Damian and B about the value of nothing?
(a) It is laughed at.
(b) It falls flat.
(c) It becomes valid.
(d) It is ignored.

7. What might be another reason for the brevity of this chapter?
(a) He simply was unwilling to discuss the topic in any detail.
(b) He simply got bored of the subject matter.
(c) He simply had other things he wanted to think about more.
(d) He simply did not want to work on his book at that point of the process.

8. Should one ever complain about a situation while the situation is still going on?
(a) Yes, rarely.
(b) Yes, always.
(c) No, never.
(d) Yes, sometimes.

9. Almost as much fun for Andy as grocery shopping is what?
(a) Cooking with his groceries.
(b) Eating his groceries.
(c) Buying for others.
(d) Shopping for books and magazines.

10. Andy recommends that people have tubes installed where?
(a) In the stomach.
(b) In the rectum.
(c) In the esophagus.
(d) In the intestines.

11. Why might this chapter be so short?
(a) Perhaps Andy did not know what to say.
(b) Perhaps Andy wanted to make his book shorter.
(c) Perhaps Andy enjoyed the artistic allusion he created here.
(d) Perhaps Andy did not care about the subject matter.

12. What does Andy believe supermarkets should do?
(a) Buy things back from people.
(b) Sell more variety of items.
(c) Buy back bad meat.
(d) Sell only what he needs.

13. Is this chapter symbolic?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) Somewhat.

14. In what does Andy delight when walking around the store?
(a) Looking at all the beautiful things to buy.
(b) Looking rich and buying things to store on his bedroom windowsill.
(c) Looking at the shoppers around him.
(d) Looking at people stare at him.

15. How many tricks does Andy have to help him persevere?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andy finds what he is looking for and is content until when?

2. After it's over, what should one do?

3. Of how many sentences is this chapter comprised?

4. Andy's Torino art dealer phones, inviting Andy and B to what?

5. As what does the bag function?

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