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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about John Young's experience in the hospital?
(a) Traumatized.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Proud.

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

3. In the narrator's experience, where is Tod Friendly when he begins to touch himself?
(a) At the tennis court.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) In the supermarket.
(d) At home.

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

5. What happens to Tod Friendly's body over time?
(a) He gets younger, stronger, and more virile.
(b) He gets older and more infirm.
(c) He spends more and more time in the bathroom.
(d) He spends less and less time masturbating.

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

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

8. What does the narrator think always happens to the attraction Tod Friendly feels for women?
(a) It fades away in time.
(b) It gets stronger until Tod Friendly asks them to sleep over.
(c) It gets stronger until they find out about his past.
(d) It never gets strong enough that he speaks to them.

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

10. What does the man in the basement apartment say when John Young says, "You were expecting me, my name is John Young"?
(a) "The weather is getting better, isn't it?"
(b) "I've been expecting you."
(c) "Do you have the money?"
(d) "Tod Friendly."

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

12. How does the narrator think that John Young begins his affairs?
(a) By taking a nurse out to dinner.
(b) By treating women in the hospital.
(c) By implanting a miniature baby in his girlfriends.
(d) By performing abortions for women.

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

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

15. What happens when the narrator has a moment of lucidity?
(a) John Young rubs glass and blood all over a man.
(b) John Young is crushing a child's hips, and the child crawls forward.
(c) John Young sleeps with Irene.
(d) John Young throws up in the toilet before spending all night in bar after bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many forward gears does the narrator think Tod Friendly's car has?

2. What does the narrator wish he could say to Irene?

3. What does Tod Friendly tell Irene when she asks him about his secret?

4. What is Tod Friendly's job?

5. Where would Odilo Unverdorben stay in Italy?

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