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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. How does the press explain Bunny's death?
(a) He was tremendously overweight.
(b) HIs dysfunctional family is to blame.
(c) He had no friends and was an outcast.
(d) He was overwhelmed by school work.

2. What is Henry reading when the group arrives at the Corcoran house before the funeral?
(a) The Upanishads.
(b) The Illiad.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) The Bible.

3. What does Henry overhear the Corcorans talking about before Bunny's funeral?
(a) Their financial troubles.
(b) Their plans to move.
(c) Their request for an autopsy.
(d) Their relief that Bunny is dead.

4. What about her son's death has Mrs. Corcoran concerned?
(a) That he died dishonorably drunk.
(b) That he committed suicide.
(c) That he had cancer.
(d) That he was a drug dealer.

5. What does Henry have Charles bring to Richard on the morning before Greek class?
(a) A letter from his parents in California.
(b) The book Julian wanted them to read over the weekend.
(c) His notes on the reading assignment.
(d) A copy of a Greek sonnet to recite in class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police officers find in Bunny's room when they are called in to help find Bunny?

2. What is the motto of Hampden College?

3. Why does Francis not want to see a psychiatrist for his problems?

4. What does the letter Richard receives from Julian before Bunny's funeral tell him?

5. What does Judy Poovey tell Richard in the hall when she sees him the day after Jake Teitelbaum's party?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bunny's friends at school respond to his death? What do they think happened to him?

2. How do the police finally become involved in the search for Bunny's body? How do the group members react to the police involvement?

3. Why does Charles become enraged with Henry? What does he believe Henry is trying to do?

4. What does Richard begin to understand about Henry as the novel draws to its climax?

5. What does Camilla reveal to Richard about her brother after she has moved out of the apartment she shares with Charles? How does Richard respond?

6. What issue does Richard struggle with after Bunny's death? To what does he attribute the group's actions?

7. How does the group manage as the guests of the Corcorans in the days before Bunny's funeral?

8. Why is Charles arrested during the month following Bunny's murder? Why is Henry concerned about this?

9. What do Charles and Francis argue about the day before the funeral? Of what does Richard feel this and the other arguments among the group members is symptomatic?

10. What happens the day after Bunny's murder that changes the group's plans significantly?

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