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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hamilton de Souza pay the old Spanish man?
(a) Gold ingots.
(b) US dollars.
(c) French francs.
(d) German deutsch marks.

2. What does the old man tell Tod Friendly after the narrator sees Tod drive his car away from the fire hydrant?
(a) "I know you from somewhere."
(b) "It is your turn to discard."
(c) "Your driving days are over."
(d) "I need a prescription for pain."

3. Why is the narrator shocked when Irene comes to the house?
(a) She is being beaten up by a pimp.
(b) She walks forward toward the house.
(c) She is crying because the garden was in disrepair.
(d) She tells Tod Friendly that she is in love with him.

4. What does the narrator think men would give Odilo Unverdorben when he stays at their farms?
(a) Their passports.
(b) Papers.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Gold.

5. What is Irene saying the first time the narrator hears her voice?
(a) She is telling Tod Friendly she loves him.
(b) She is telling Tod Friendly goodbye.
(c) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows about his affairs with other women.
(d) She is telling Tod Friendly that she knows his true identity.

6. With whom does Hamilton de Souza meet at the Vatican?
(a) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
(b) "The Agent."
(c) Father Duryea.
(d) Odilo Unverdorben.

7. What term does the narrator coin to describe the act of eating?
(a) "Feasting."
(b) "Going to the restaurant."
(c) "Celebration of food."
(d) "Vomitorium."

8. Where does John Young land when he reaches Europe?
(a) London.
(b) Salerno.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Lisbon.

9. What does Tod Friendly do when he shaves?
(a) He refuses to look at himself in the mirror.
(b) He talks to himself about his dreams.
(c) He reads the morning paper.
(d) He does not shave; he is shaved by the hospital orderlies.

10. How does Tod Friendly walk in the door to his house after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He walks in sideways.
(b) He has to climb over some rubble.
(c) He limps because of the pain in his ankle.
(d) He walks in backwards.

11. From whom does Tod Friendly get a letter every year?
(a) Irene.
(b) A doctor from AMS.
(c) A realtor.
(d) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.

12. What kind of women does John Young prefer?
(a) Women with husbands.
(b) Women with children.
(c) Women who smoke and drink.
(d) Women with diseases.

13. What seems to the narrator to make more sense backwards?
(a) Male/female conversations.
(b) Sex.
(c) Using the bathroom.
(d) Eating.

14. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?
(a) He reverses their words.
(b) He reads their lips.
(c) He translates their words from another language.
(d) He deciphers the code in which people speak.

15. Which war does Tod Friendly protest?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) The Vietnam War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds love letters?

2. Where does the narrator go when he leaves the hospital?

3. When Hamilton de Souza puts together the pieces of a torn picture, who does the narrator think he recognizes in the photo?

4. How does the narrator feel about eating?

5. What does the narrator think always happens to the attraction Tod Friendly feels for women?

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