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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Odilo Unverdorben live most comfortably?
(a) Salerno.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) Germany.
(d) On board the ship to Europe.

2. 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.

3. What does Tod Friendly do to get a new name?
(a) He gives a man a lot of money in his new apartment.
(b) He gets demoted at the hospital.
(c) He goes to a basement apartment where a man gives him money.
(d) He speaks with someone at the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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

5. Who is the narrator thinking about when John Young is sailing to Europe?
(a) Irene.
(b) Father Duryea.
(c) Odilo Unverdorben's mother.
(d) Herta

6. Where does the narrator think that Tod Friendly finds Irene's love letters?
(a) In the trash.
(b) In the mail.
(c) In the fire.
(d) In the drawer.

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

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

9. What does the woman say after John Young bursts into her apartment after taking off all his clothes?
(a) "I love you."
(b) "My husband."
(c) "You don't want to know."
(d) "You jerk!"

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

11. When does the narrator feel that he and Tod Friendly have things in common?
(a) When Tod Friendly is talking to Irene.
(b) When Tod Friendly is dreaming about a person in a lab coat.
(c) When Tod Friendly is looking at women.
(d) When Tod Friendly is taking money from prostitutes.

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

13. How do the other doctors feel about John Young?
(a) They are inspired by him.
(b) They admire his virility.
(c) They are disgusted by him.
(d) They distrust him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Odilo Unverdorben pass through on his way south at the end of the war?

2. In the narrator's experience, what happens to cause "the Agent's" staff to become cold and distant?

3. Whom does John Young date?

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

5. Where does Hamilton de Souza keep his gold when he travels to Salerno, Italy?

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