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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 learn to make sense of what people say?
(a) He reads their lips.
(b) He translates their words from another language.
(c) He deciphers the code in which people speak.
(d) He reverses their words.

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

3. What does John Young do for the man with a hole in his head?
(a) He gets the man help.
(b) He cleans the hole and stitches it up.
(c) He puts a nail in the hole.
(d) He gives the man a lot of money.

4. Who delivers the tabloids every morning?
(a) Tod Friendly.
(b) The garbage man.
(c) The orderlies.
(d) The paper boy.

5. Where does John Young land when he reaches Europe?
(a) Salerno.
(b) London.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Lisbon.

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

7. Which war does Tod Friendly protest?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War II.

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

9. What does the narrator see upon waking at the beginning of the book?
(a) Doctors all around.
(b) Main Street, USA.
(c) Corpses all around.
(d) His house.

10. How does the narrator believe people are treated at crisis centers?
(a) Pimps would heal women with their fists.
(b) Tod Friendly would heal them by operating on them.
(c) Mothers would arrive kicking and screaming but leave rested and happier.
(d) People are asked questions about how satisfied they are with their care.

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

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

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

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

15. Why is the narrator shocked when Irene comes to the house?
(a) She is being beaten up by a pimp.
(b) She is crying because the garden was in disrepair.
(c) She tells Tod Friendly that she is in love with him.
(d) She walks forward toward the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go when he leaves the hospital?

2. How does the narrator feel about doctors?

3. Where does the narrator believe the weather is always good?

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

5. How do people speak in the narrator's experience?

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