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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Darren lose his job?
(a) He stopped showing up.
(b) He could not read.
(c) He lied about his experience.
(d) He stole from the till.

2. What caused Jane to start to receive obscene and threatening phone calls?
(a) Her lectures on homosexuality.
(b) Her promotion to department head.
(c) Her taking Jonathan away from Rachel.
(d) Her book about abuse.

3. Where is Ziegler carted away to, at the end of the story?
(a) A zoo.
(b) A police station.
(c) A hospital.
(d) An insane asylum.

4. Where does Darren say he feels safe?
(a) In Jonathan’s office.
(b) In tunnels of brush.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) In his house.

5. In Jane’s recollection, when did she discover she failed to purchase airline tickets for her trip?
(a) The night before the trip.
(b) Two days before the trip.
(c) On the way to the airport.
(d) At the airport.

6. What tipped Jane off to her mother’s ability to ignore difficult realities?
(a) Her reaction when she stole a painting from her employer.
(b) Her reaction when Jonathan mistakenly rented a pornographic cartoon for Adam.
(c) Her reaction when she rear-ended someone in a parking lot.
(d) Her reaction when Jane told her she was taking a man from his wife.

7. What is the model of the bike Darren rides?
(a) A Bianchi Speedster.
(b) A Huffy TrailMaster.
(c) A Raleigh Diplomat.
(d) A Schwinn Predator.

8. What real-life events did Jonathan’s therapist see in his feelings about the Ziegler story?
(a) His parents’ death.
(b) His marital indiscretion.
(c) His son’s birth.
(d) His wife’s illness.

9. What is the spread in debate?
(a) A technique for misleading opponents’ arguments.
(b) A technique for refuting opponents’ arguments through inference.
(c) A technique for scoring points by speaking at high speeds.
(d) A technique for picking apart opponents’ arguments.

10. What does Darren’s mother complain about?
(a) Darren’s lying.
(b) Darren’s stealing.
(c) Darren's disrespect toward teachers.
(d) Darren’s appetite.

11. How does the narrator say Bob Dole spoke at the high school debate tournament?
(a) Haltingly.
(b) Fluently.
(c) Patriotically.
(d) Extemporaneously.

12. What was the first instance Jane recalled of watching herself ignore her own knowledge?
(a) Learning that her painted tissue box was a lie.
(b) Burying her memory of her father’s abuse.
(c) Reading during her graduate studies, which she did not realize she identified with.
(d) Neglecting to buy airline tickets.

13. Where does Ziegler find the pill he ultimately swallows in the story?
(a) A junk shop.
(b) On the street.
(c) A museum.
(d) A zoo.

14. What did Jonathan ask his subjects to do for his dissertation research?
(a) Sing scat songs.
(b) Read gibberish.
(c) Debate him.
(d) Read quickly.

15. Where did Jonathan see contempt coming from, which made him want to leave the Met?
(a) The sculptures.
(b) The other museum-goers.
(c) The guards.
(d) Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jane say was the first person to get her see the knowledge she might have been hiding from herself?

2. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?

3. What was Darren’s therapist’s response when Darren lost his job?

4. How does Jonathan see his dissertation research putting him in Ziegler’s position?

5. Where was Adam’s photo with Bob Dole displayed?

(see the answer keys)

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