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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adam say it means to be a subject in a supermarket?
(a) To be spread by objects.
(b) To be seduced by sounds and scents.
(c) To be immune to language.
(d) To be besieged by colors and manipulative designs.

2. How does Jonathan describe the encounter he had with a girl at a bath house?
(a) In the third person.
(b) In indirect discourse.
(c) In the first person.
(d) In the second person.

3. Why did Adam lose his debate in the semi-finals?
(a) He blanked out for a long moment.
(b) He insulted the judges.
(c) His opponent spread him.
(d) He quoted incorrect information.

4. What was the purple cow lyric used for?
(a) Teaching Adam about colors.
(b) Making Adam and his mother laugh together.
(c) Teaching Adam to read.
(d) Getting Adam to bed.

5. How does Jonathan say his family lived while they were abroad?
(a) Like traveling minstrels.
(b) Like royalty.
(c) Like bums.
(d) Like the locals.

6. When does the narrator say the term overkill was coined?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1946.

7. Where did Darren get a drink on his walk home?
(a) A McDonalds.
(b) A convenience store.
(c) A glass inside someone’s house.
(d) A hose outside a house.

8. Who paid for dinner before Jane’s event?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Jane.
(c) Sima.
(d) Adam.

9. Where is Jonathan when the New York School chapter begins?
(a) In an airplane circling Topeka.
(b) New York.
(c) In an airplane circling JFK.
(d) Taiwan.

10. Where had Jonathan’s family lived before they went abroad?
(a) Maryland.
(b) New York.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Topeka.

11. What was the special gift Jane received instead of a bicycle for Christmas, as a child?
(a) A painted tin tissue box.
(b) A toy dog made out of felt.
(c) A wooden box with a false bottom.
(d) A necklace made of polished glass beads.

12. How did this story about the special gift make Adam feel about Jane’s family?
(a) It made him impatient with Jane’s gullibility.
(b) It made him angry at Jane’s mother.
(c) It made him love Jane’s sister.
(d) It made him sympathetic toward his grandfather.

13. Why was a particular person central to including Darren?
(a) To atone for having hit him once.
(b) Because he enjoyed mocking him.
(c) Out of progressive optimistic values.
(d) Out of spite.

14. What environment does the narrator say Darren’s camouflage pants helped him disappear into?
(a) Kansas plains.
(b) Topeka suburbs.
(c) Kansas society.
(d) American empire.

15. Where was Darren when he finally called his mother collect, to come get him?
(a) Topeka.
(b) Clinton Lake.
(c) Stull.
(d) Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Adam’s friends exercise their aggression through language?

2. What advice did Evanson give Adam in Minneapolis?

3. How did Jane defuse Adam’s meltdown when he could not reach his girlfriend?

4. What were Darren’s friends doing while he puked into the grass at Clinton Lake?

5. What was Darren’s relationship with Ron Williams?

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