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

2. How does the narrator characterize the state of American culture?
(a) Relentlessly cruel innovation.
(b) Lost boys without parents.
(c) Adolescence without end.
(d) Seven lost generations.

3. How does the narrator characterize Darren?
(a) A baby.
(b) A pet.
(c) An animal.
(d) A man-child.

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

5. What did Fred Phelps’ family call Jane Gordon?
(a) The misanthrope.
(b) The brain.
(c) Medusa.
(d) The seductress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jane characterize Adam’s behavior over dinner with her and Jonathan and Amber?

2. Jonathan compares his classmate Russell to a character in what book?

3. What is the reputation of the town of Stull?

4. When Adam understood the language of products, what did he understand them to be saying?

5. Who paid for dinner before Jane’s event?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the interaction between Adam and Jane and the Phelpses on the way to Jane’s keynote address?

2. How does Adam characterize his circle’s relationship with Darren?

3. What was Jonathan’s relationship with Donna Selkie like, and what made is awkward?

4. What is the difference between extemp and Lincoln-Douglass debate?

5. How did Jonathan’s relationship with Sima begin?

6. What is the importance of the purple cow?

7. What was Jonathan’s experience in the bathhouse, and how did it affect him?

8. Who are the Phelpses and what was their relation to Jane Gordon?

9. How did Adam lose his L-D debate?

10. How did the time at the roller rink return seven years later in the basement at Jason’s party?

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