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

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

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

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

5. What does Ziegler find he can understand, once he take the pill?
(a) The language of clouds.
(b) The language of things.
(c) The language of animals.
(d) The language of music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic is Adam debating in Russell High School?

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

3. How does Jonathan characterize the Topeka Foundation?

4. Where were Jonathan and his first wife married?

5. What is the model of the bike Darren rides?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator’s perspective shift as he describes Adam’s return to shore and the process of reuniting with Amber?

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

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

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

5. What significance does Darren attribute to the paper banner cheerleaders hold up for the football team to run through?

6. What importance did Jonathan’s therapist attach to his interest in the Ziegler story?

7. What was the memory Sima helped Jane uncover?

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

9. How does Jane characterize her relationship with Sima?

10. What emotions does Jane associate with having neglected to order airline tickets for a family trip?

(see the answer keys)

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