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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 are the characters who the Duke meets on November 2 doing?
(a) Walking to school.
(b) Playing an unruly game.
(c) Harrassing the passerbys.
(d) Stealing.

2. How much land do the tunnels cover?
(a) 17 miles.
(b) 8 miles.
(c) 1 acre.
(d) 12 miles.

3. What does the Duke's irrational fear of his diminishing health suggest?
(a) He is Antisocial.
(b) He is Schizophrenic.
(c) He is a hypochondriac.
(d) He is Bipolar.

4. What is the Duke's reputation based on?
(a) Lies.
(b) Truth.
(c) Idle converstaion.
(d) First hand accounts.

5. What does the Duke spend his last few months of life trying to do?
(a) Sell his estate.
(b) Live a more complete life.
(c) Make friends.
(d) Justify his lonely existance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about two young boys impresses the Duke?

2. How does the Duke feel during his carriage rides through the tunnel system?

3. What does the boy's energy remind the Duke of?

4. How does Mr. Bird feel about the rumors about the Duke?

5. What does the Duke's memory of the sparrow make him think of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Oakely sisters tell the Duke concerning the beef essence?

2. Why does it seem that Mr. Bird does not mind the Duke's eccentricities?

3. What is the significance of reading Mr. Bird's point of view within the Duke's journal?

4. How is the Duke's imagination revealed with the soap bubbles in the laundry room sink?

5. What is the second part of the Duke's journal entry for October 16th?

6. How is the map that Mr. Bird gives the Duke Flawed?

7. What is the purpose of the underground tunnel system?

8. How could one explain the rumor of the Duke being horribly deformed?

9. What is the significance of learning that the gamekeeper has a dog?

10. What becomes more noticeable to the Duke as he ages?

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