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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When would John Young's affairs typically begin?
(a) After he helps people at the hospital.
(b) A few months before he performs an abortion for his girlfriend.
(c) After his lovers are beaten by their husbands.
(d) A few months after he performs an abortion for his girlfriend.

5. Where would Odilo Unverdorben stay in Italy?
(a) In secluded farms.
(b) In guest houses.
(c) In churches.
(d) In expensive hotels.

6. When does Hamilton de Souza cease to talk, in the narrator's experience?
(a) When he sails for Europe.
(b) When he takes the name Hamilton de Souza.
(c) When he meets with Father Duryea in the Vatican.
(d) When he sails for Salerno, Italy.

7. What does the narrator describe as an "atrocity-producing" situation?
(a) The hospital.
(b) JFK's hero's welcome in Dallas.
(c) The city.
(d) The possibility of nuclear war.

8. How does the narrator feel about watching medical practices?
(a) Curious.
(b) Disgusted.
(c) Calm and confident.
(d) Squeamish.

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

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

11. In what condition is John Young's body when he sails for Europe?
(a) He is thin from living in poverty.
(b) He is sick with apprehension about the voyage.
(c) He is fat and out of shape from living in luxury.
(d) He is healthy with a good tan.

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

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

14. Where would John Young perform abortions on women?
(a) In the basement apartment.
(b) In the pediatric ward.
(c) At their homes.
(d) At the Imperial Hotel.

15. Where does Odilo Unverdorben pass through on his way south at the end of the war?
(a) Bologna.
(b) Rome.
(c) Salerno.
(d) Lisbon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the taxi cab take John Young after his night of drinking?

2. What does the woman say after John Young bursts into her apartment after taking off all his clothes?

3. How does the narrator learn to make sense of what people say?

4. With whom does John Young meet before his voyage to Europe?

5. Who is the narrator thinking about when John Young is sailing to Europe?

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