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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 Nick say Gunnar forgot to factor in when Gunnar spoke of music being finite?
(a) The number of different musical instruments.
(b) Man's ingenuity.
(c) The concept of time.
(d) How long a note can be sustained.

2. What is the meaning of concatenate?
(a) Take apart.
(b) A strange puzzle.
(c) Bring together.
(d) Play fair.

3. What happens to Gunnar when he walks to the store to buy something for Yoshiko's craving?
(a) A helicopter shines a light on him.
(b) He gets lost.
(c) He runs into his sister.
(d) He is stopped by a gang.

4. What does Gunnar think of the rhetoric of Ambrosia?
(a) He thinks it would make a good poem.
(b) He thinks its pretentious and ridiculous.
(c) He thinks it is partly correct.
(d) He thinks it is written badly.

5. How does Gunnar get his assignments from class?
(a) He collects them at the principal's office.
(b) He picks them up at the library.
(c) An assistant coach collects them from the teachers.
(d) In class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who performs the marriage ceremony?

2. Where does a recruiter from Harvard take Gunnar?

3. Where do Gunnar and Yoshiko tell people she will deliver their baby?

4. What does Gunnar say he was advocating in his speech?

5. How does Gunnar feel about the introductory speaker?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what is Gunnar invited to speak and how does Gunnar feel about the introductory speaker?

2. How does the school counselor feel about Gunnar's SAT scores and what happens because of his scores?

3. What does Gunnar's father do after the riots and how does Gunnar feel about it?

4. What happens in Chapter Seven when Gunnar arrives at Ms. Kim's store?

5. What subject does Nick bring up to Gunnar and what does Nick ask Gunnar?

6. What kind of social life does Gunnar, Yoshiko and Nick have in Boston?

7. What does Gunnar's creative writing class want him to do?

8. What happens when Gunnar leaves his creative writing class in Chapter Ten when Gunnar is going home?

9. What does Nick complain about Boston and what does he do about it?

10. What happens when Yoshiko goes into labor?

(see the answer keys)

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