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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 made Jane see that her Christmas gift was not, in fact, special?
(a) She received the same thing as a gift again.
(b) Her mother told her what happened.
(c) Her father confessed to blowing the Christmas money.
(d) She saw an identical thing years later.

2. What does Jane make herself think about Adam, instead of admitting his behavior?
(a) She thinks of him as trustworthy.
(b) She thinks of him as extremely knowledgeable.
(c) She thinks of him as handsome and strong.
(d) She thinks of him as vulnerable.

3. When Adam understood the language of products, what did he understand them to be saying?
(a) That they loathed him.
(b) That they did not recognize him.
(c) That they admired him.
(d) That they desired him.

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

5. What does Jonathan say his parents drank to ignore?
(a) His own poor health.
(b) His father’s parents’ divorce.
(c) Hiroshima.
(d) His father’s affairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose friends did Adam’s friend protect Darren from?

2. What did Adam do after dinner that delighted the Phelpses?

3. How did Sima’s relationship with Eric begin?

4. Who invited Darren to stay and have a beer at Ron Williams’ place?

5. What advice did Evanson give Adam in Minneapolis?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what condition did Darren wake up at Clinton Lake?

2. What happened to Darren at Clinton Lake?

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

4. What aspect of Adam’s friends’ culture led to the melee that started with Reynolds and Darren?

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

6. What is the narrator’s relationship with Darren’s hike back from Clinton Lake?

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

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

9. What cause Jane to consciously redirect her thoughts about Adam’s behavior, and how did she do so?

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

(see the answer keys)

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