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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does John Young date?
(a) Women he meets in bars.
(b) Parents of the children from the hospital.
(c) Patients from work.
(d) Nurses from work.

2. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds love letters?
(a) At his job.
(b) In the old house.
(c) In the mail box.
(d) In the trash.

3. When does the narrator begin to feel that the world is going to start making sense very soon?
(a) When he meets with the Agent.
(b) When he stays at farms in Italy where men pay him in gold.
(c) When he sails from New York to Lisbon.
(d) When he meets with Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.

4. Where does Tod Friendly meet many of his girlfriends?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) At work.
(c) On the street.
(d) In the park.

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

6. Who is the narrator?
(a) A voice in Tod Friendly's head.
(b) One of the doctors surrounding Tod Friendly at the beginning of the book.
(c) A character from Tod Friendly's past.
(d) The doctor who was Tod Friendly's mentor.

7. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live most comfortably?
(a) Salerno.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) On board the ship to Europe.
(d) Germany.

8. Where does Tod Friendly live in the beginning of the book?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Main Street USA.
(c) Munich.
(d) Auschwitz.

9. How many servants does Hamilton de Souza have in the villa north of Redondo?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

10. Where does Hamilton de Souza keep his gold when he travels to Salerno, Italy?
(a) Under his hat.
(b) In his shoes.
(c) Underneath his shirt.
(d) In his luggage.

11. How do people speak in the narrator's experience?
(a) In languages the narrator does not understand.
(b) In code.
(c) Backwards.
(d) In gibberish.

12. Who is the president of the United States at the beginning of the book?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Lyndon Johnson.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

13. When Hamilton de Souza puts together the pieces of a torn picture, who does the narrator think he recognizes in the photo?
(a) His child.
(b) His father.
(c) His wife.
(d) Himself.

14. How does the narrator feel about John Young's departure from New York?
(a) He resents John Young's virility.
(b) He is glad that they could escape together.
(c) He envies his escape from the hospital.
(d) He is proud of the work John Young did there.

15. What color is the hospital, regardless of the season?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) Gray.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who delivers the tabloids every morning?

2. What are conditions like in Italy when (in the narrator's experience) Hamilton de Souza lands there?

3. What does the old man tell Tod Friendly after the narrator sees Tod drive his car away from the fire hydrant?

4. How does the narrator think that John Young begins his affairs?

5. When does Hamilton de Souza cease to talk, in the narrator's experience?

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