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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What clock on the wall is "worth ten times more than [George had] ever told anyone," according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) The Thwaites & Reed grandfather clock.
(b) The Simon Willard banjo clock.
(c) The Joseph Johnson cuckoo clock.
(d) The Karl Suchy Viennese wall clock.

2. What color does the green sea turn in the excerpt from Chapter 4 called "Homo Borealis"?
(a) Gray.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

3. What velvet-antlered animals are described in the "Cometa Borealis" excerpt in Chapter 4?
(a) Goats.
(b) White-tailed deer.
(c) Caribou.
(d) Mule deer.

4. What book is cited with the description of the inner workings of a clock in Chapter 4?
(a) The Time of Finding Time.
(b) Alice in Wonderland.
(c) The Old Man and the Sea.
(d) The Reasonable Horologist.

5. How does the narrator describe George's wife's cooking in Chapter 4?
(a) Very good.
(b) Mediocre.
(c) Very fatty.
(d) Very bad.

6. What does Howard describe his father doing all of the time in Howard's childhood in Chapter 3?
(a) Writing law articles.
(b) Working in his laboratory.
(c) Reading history books.
(d) Composing sermons.

7. At how many different banks has George kept safety deposit boxes, according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

8. What has George worked at filling his safety deposit boxes full of, according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) Customer invoices.
(b) Hundred dollar bills.
(c) Gold watches.
(d) Diamond jewelry.

9. What word from Chapter 3 means characterized by length of speech or wordiness, or scattered?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Diffuse.
(d) Coercive.

10. What kind of wood was Howard's father's canoe made from that he recalls in Chapter 3?
(a) Ash.
(b) Pine.
(c) Birch.
(d) Willow.

11. Nikki Bocheki is described in Chapter 4 as an acquaintance of George's from where?
(a) The Unitarian church.
(b) The Synagogue.
(c) The police station.
(d) The butcher shop.

12. What is Howard's father's profession?
(a) He is a reverend.
(b) He is a senator.
(c) He is a policeman.
(d) He is a doctor.

13. What part of a clock is described in Chapter 4 as "where the energy generated by the mainspring finally escapes the clock"?
(a) The pinion.
(b) The gathering mallet.
(c) The going train.
(d) The escapement.

14. As Howard stands in the silt of the pond outlet in the woods in Chapter 3, the narrator describes the sticks and branches on the pond bed as feeling like what to him?
(a) Stones.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Bones.
(d) Engine parts.

15. The narrator says in Chapter 3 as Howard searches the woods for his father, "The tom-tom tap of a pileated woodpecker sounded from somewhere in the woods, to Howard's left." What literary device is used in this sentence?
(a) Simile.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nikki Bocheki's profession?

2. How many men are waiting outside when Howard's father is taken away in Chapter 3?

3. What kind of car is Nikki Bocheki driving when he visits George in Chapter 4?

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to an instrument that is pointed and pen-shaped used in artwork?

5. When Howard's mother helps his father dress before he is taken away in Chapter 3, Howard describes it as appearing as though she is dressing what?

(see the answer keys)

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