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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 is the name of the record executive?
(a) Fairing.
(b) Winsome.
(c) Benny.
(d) Mafia.

2. How and where was Stencil shot?
(a) He was shot in the leg with a rifle.
(b) He was hit in the buttock by the shotgun blast.
(c) He was shot in the arm with a tranquilizer.
(d) He was shot in the face with a .45 muzzle.

3. When Benny goes down to the ship's deck to warm up, what does he play with the night watchman?
(a) Darts.
(b) A game of cat and mouse.
(c) Backgammon.
(d) Chess.

4. What collapses on Evan as he tries to leave the building?
(a) His lungs.
(b) Stairs.
(c) The door.
(d) The box.

5. In a cafe in Egypt, what does the waiter P. Aieul hear two Englishmen talk about?
(a) A coming thunderstorm.
(b) A dance they do not want to miss.
(c) A war.
(d) A party at the consulate that night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Angel's friend who works with him?

2. Where does Benny find Paola after spending time with the night watchman?

3. What is the name of the dentist who treats Stencil?

4. What is Profane worried about when he sees fights among the Playboys and how his friend(s) reconcile them?

5. With whom does Benny attend a New Year's party on a boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hugo Bongo-Shaftsbury talk to Mildred about on the train in Egypt?

2. Why is Gaucho arrested?

3. Why does Esther fall in love with her plastic surgeon?

4. Who does Benny meet on the subway and who do they introduce him to?

5. How does Dr. Schoenmaker view Esther in Chapter 4?

6. What is the plan concocted by the two men outside the wine shop and what does Gaucho propose?

7. How is the apathy of the Whole Sick Crew evident in Winsome's behavior?

8. What happens when Benny goes to the ferry and meets Paola?

9. Describe the Sailor's Grave.

10. What does Rachel have a desire for that all the other members of the Whole Sick Crew appear to lack?

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