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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Babette teach?
(a) The Methodist Church.
(b) The Presbyterian Church.
(c) The Congregational Church.
(d) The Catholic Church.

2. What is Heinrich's mother's name?
(a) Mother Devi.
(b) Steffie.
(c) Tweedy.
(d) Babette.

3. Which child likes to burn toast?
(a) Steffie.
(b) Denise.
(c) Bee.
(d) Wilder.

4. How much is tuition at the College-on-the-Hill?
(a) Fourteen thousand dollars.
(b) Nine thousand dollars.
(c) Thirty thousand dollars.
(d) Thirty-three thousand dollars.

5. What is the minimum requirement for learning German if you want to major in Hitler studies?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) No requirement.
(d) Fluency.

6. Who helps Jack find a German teacher?
(a) Murray.
(b) Babette.
(c) Heinrich.
(d) Wilder.

7. What is the name of the "barbarian" who died young, whom Jack thinks about in terms of his own death.
(a) Attila the Hun.
(b) Charlemagne.
(c) Erik the Red.
(d) Ivan the Terrible.

8. In the car, Heinrich offers five dollars to anyone who can name the population of which country?
(a) Uruguay.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Bolivia.

9. In what year did the narrator invent his academic department?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1984.

10. Who is Tweedy's husband?
(a) Jack Gladney.
(b) Malcolm Hunt.
(c) Howard Waldrop.
(d) Murray Siskind.

11. What does she teach there?
(a) Aerobics.
(b) Needlepoint.
(c) Singing.
(d) Posture.

12. Eric tells Jack that he looks different without what?
(a) Babette.
(b) His suit.
(c) His glasses and gown.
(d) His children.

13. When Babette and Jack decide to read something erotic to each other, Jack wants a text from which century?
(a) Fifteenth.
(b) Twentieth.
(c) Eighteenth.
(d) Ninth.

14. Why does the family crowd into Steffie's room?
(a) To watch the sunset.
(b) To watch a movie.
(c) To pack up her books.
(d) To help her clean her room.

15. What is the name of the town where this novel is set?
(a) Blacksmith.
(b) Hopewell.
(c) Blackwell.
(d) Wellfleet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bee's father?

2. According to the doctor, what did Gladys die from?

3. What do Heinrich and Jack have a philosophical conversation about on the way to school?

4. Which pop-culture icon is Murray most interested in studying?

5. What does Denise say causes cancer in lab animals?

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