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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 Irene?
(a) He is disappointed by her.
(b) He is cool to her affection.
(c) He is afraid of her.
(d) He loves her.

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

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

4. The narrator knows that his life would end when?
(a) When John Young commits suicide.
(b) At birth.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) At Auschwitz.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. What does Tod Friendly dream about repeatedly?
(a) Irene.
(b) Babies.
(c) Trains.
(d) Car crashes.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John Young land when he reaches Europe?

2. How does the narrator feel about doctors?

3. Where would Odilo Unverdorben stay in Italy?

4. What seems to the narrator to make more sense backwards?

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

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