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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group was Jonathan’s brother joining at the time?
(a) The Black Panthers.
(b) The Weather Underground.
(c) The Extinction Rebellion.
(d) The Young Republicans.

2. What is Adam’s relationship with Joanna?
(a) She is his debate partner.
(b) She is his girlfriend.
(c) She is his lab partner in chemistry.
(d) She is his neighbor.

3. Where does Jane say her abuse took place?
(a) In a hotel.
(b) On a trip.
(c) In her parents’ house.
(d) On a train.

4. What does Ziegler hear, once he can understand this language?
(a) Endless questions.
(b) Affection.
(c) Contempt.
(d) The voice of God.

5. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?
(a) Speech shadowing.
(b) Glossolalia.
(c) Music.
(d) Debate techniques.

6. What character in American literature does Jonathan compare his patient/film intern to?
(a) Leatherstocking.
(b) Billy Budd.
(c) Bartleby.
(d) Hester Prynne.

7. What does the narrator say Darren would use to ward off insults?
(a) Curses.
(b) Chants.
(c) Acting.
(d) Magic.

8. Whose house does Adam enter at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Amber’s.
(b) His own.
(c) A strangers’.
(d) Jason’s.

9. When were Jonathan and his first wife married?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1991.

10. How did Darren believe he acquired magic powers?
(a) By repeating a chant.
(b) By entering a dark cave.
(c) By rubbing poison ivy.
(d) By kissing a girl.

11. What does Darren like about Stan at the Surplus store?
(a) His lessons about life.
(b) His food and drink.
(c) His instructions in fixing things.
(d) His talk about violence and women.

12. What does Adam say these figures can trigger?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Vomiting.
(c) Seizures.
(d) Psychotic hallucinations

13. What does Darren say has been hanging in space all his life?
(a) A cue ball.
(b) A knife.
(c) His mother’s face.
(d) The sun.

14. Whose voice is asking the reader to explain what led to the picture of Adam with Bob Dole?
(a) A therapist.
(b) A parent.
(c) A student.
(d) A police officer.

15. Who does the narrator say is from the town Adam goes to debate in?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Bob Dole.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first instance Jane recalled of watching herself ignore her own knowledge?

2. What real-life events did Jonathan’s therapist see in his feelings about the Ziegler story?

3. Where did Jonathan see contempt coming from, which made him want to leave the Met?

4. What does Jane say caused her language to end in pure sound?

5. What took Adam to see Dr. Erwood?

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