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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Tod Friendly's job?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Garbage man.
(c) Police man.
(d) Tennis player.

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

5. What are conditions like in Italy when (in the narrator's experience) Hamilton de Souza lands there?
(a) Prosperity and contentment.
(b) War and chaos.
(c) Disarray and poverty.
(d) Industrialization and expansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator learn that a woman wants to sleep with John Young?

2. Whom does John Young date?

3. Where would John Young perform abortions on women?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tod feel about his physical body in the first chapter?

2. Can the reader sympathize with the narrator's sense of horror at John Young's work?

3. What do Tod Friendly/John Young/Hamilton de Souza/Odilo Unverdorben's name changes tell us about his character?

4. What habits does Tod Friendly pick up over the course of the first chapter?

5. What are some of the terms the narrator coins in order to make things make sense?

6. Why does Tod Friendly enjoy being part of a crowd?

7. Is there any place where the narrator's understanding is more accurate than Tod Friendly's?

8. How does the narrator feel about John Young's work?

9. What condition is Europe in when Odilo Unverdorben leaves?

10. Describe how the narrator experiences driving.

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