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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When could John Young see stars in the city for first time?
(a) After there started to be more and more cars on the roads.
(b) After cell phones disappeared from people's lives.
(c) After industry had been increasing for some time.
(d) After his black and white TV was replaced with a color TV.

2. What does Tod Friendly see when he looks in the mirror?
(a) A young face full of optimism.
(b) A corpse's face.
(c) The face of a mental patient.
(d) An old face full of fear.

3. How does the narrator feel about Irene?
(a) He is cool to her affection.
(b) He loves her.
(c) He is afraid of her.
(d) He is disappointed by her.

4. What does Tod Friendly think the orderlies did to him at the accident scene?
(a) Kissed him.
(b) Stole his money.
(c) Shaved him.
(d) Took him to the hospital.

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

6. What is Tod Friendly's car perched against when the narrator sees the policeman put Tod in his car?
(a) A fire hydrant.
(b) A building.
(c) A boulder.
(d) Another car.

7. With whom does John Young meet before his voyage to Europe?
(a) "The Agent."
(b) An old Spanish Man.
(c) Hamilton de Souza.
(d) Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.

8. How often does John Young work out?
(a) Frequently.
(b) Never.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) Rarely.

9. When does John Young sail for Europe?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1945.

10. 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 meets with Reverend Nicholas Kreditor.
(d) When he sails from New York to Lisbon.

11. What can the narrator control?
(a) What Tod Friendly says.
(b) Where Tod Friendly's eyes go.
(c) Nothing.
(d) What Tod Friendly eats.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator feel at the beginning of the book?

2. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live most comfortably?

3. What does John Young tell the Reverend Kreditor when they meet?

4. What happens when the narrator has a moment of lucidity?

5. How does the narrator feel about what John Young does for a living?

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