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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. To whom is the chapter titled “Men” addressed?
(a) Adam.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Jane.
(d) Darren.

2. What was Darren’s therapist’s response when Darren lost his job?
(a) He wanted to give Darren tools for managing his feelings.
(b) He was angry at himself for not foreseeing him running into trouble.
(c) He was angry at the customer who got him fired.
(d) He was angry at Darren.

3. Where is Adam at the beginning of the novel?
(a) In a debate tournament.
(b) In Taiwan.
(c) On a boat.
(d) In a bed.

4. What kind of gun did Darren have?
(a) A shotgun.
(b) A rifle.
(c) A pellet gun.
(d) A pistol.

5. What was the first thing Darren’s powers supposedly manifested?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A rainstorm.
(c) A floorboard creaking.
(d) A car accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tipped Jane off to her mother’s ability to ignore difficult realities?

2. Where was Sima’s family from?

3. What did Jonathan and Jane leave at the museum when they left?

4. What is Adam’s specialty in debate?

5. What did Darren believe he was responsible for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Darren’s job, and how did he lose it?

2. What is the setting for the first full chapter, after the brief prologue?

3. How does the narrative tone change when Bob Dole enters the high school where the debate is taking place?

4. How does Jonathan explain his success at the Foundation?

5. How does Jonathan describe his relationship with Ziegler?

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

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

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

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

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

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