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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. Where was Sima’s family from?
(a) India.
(b) Somalia.
(c) Iran.
(d) Ecuador.

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

3. How did Darren’s gun lead to him getting stitches?
(a) Darren’s friend shot him with it.
(b) A boy hit him after Darren pointed the gun at him.
(c) Darren split his foot when he dropped the gun on it.
(d) Darren shot himself with it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ziegler find the pill he ultimately swallows in the story?

2. How does the narrator characterize the spread in debate?

3. Where does Darren go for hot water for free?

4. What does Adam say spreads Americans?

5. Who does the narrator say is from the town Adam goes to debate in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story Amber told Adam in the car after they reconnected?

2. How does Jane say Sima was different from the other therapists at the Foundation?

3. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?

4. How did fame change things for Jane?

5. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?

6. What happens in the Herman Hesse story Jonathan talks about?

7. What was it that the Foundation community found humorous when Jonathan screened the film he made of the Ziegler story?

8. What did Jonathan find captivating about the Duccio Madonna and Child painting in the Met?

9. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?

10. What is the spread and why is it controversial?

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