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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who returns home in Chapter 29 and begins throwing things out of his/her closet?
(a) Denise.
(b) Steffie.
(c) Jack.
(d) Babette.

2. What strange condition is the spill said to cause eventually?
(a) Precognition.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Deja vu.
(d) Schadenfreude.

3. Whom does Jack follow around campus?
(a) Murray.
(b) Winnie.
(c) Babette.
(d) Mr. Gray.

4. Instead of a "plume", what does the weather center call the smoke?
(a) Black billowing mass.
(b) Toxic fog.
(c) Feathery cloud.
(d) Black billowing cloud.

5. What is the name of the man Winnie turns up and whom she says is "the resident organizational genius" working on Dylar?
(a) Dr. Chakravarty.
(b) Vernon Dickey.
(c) Mr. Gray.
(d) Willie Mink.

6. Denise is preoccupied by her mother's use of (or lack of use of) what?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Nyodene D.
(c) Sunscreen.
(d) Bottled Water.

7. What kind of walks do Jack and Murray take?
(a) Aerobic.
(b) Strenuous.
(c) Isolated.
(d) Contemplative.

8. Who/what calls the event a "feathery plume"?
(a) The fire captain.
(b) Heinrich.
(c) The television.
(d) The radio.

9. The last line of this novel refers to the cults of what?
(a) The rich and powerful.
(b) The quick and the dead.
(c) The personality and the persona.
(d) The famous and the dead.

10. What is the topic of the new course Babette has been asked to teach?
(a) Sipping and Slurping.
(b) Eating and Drinking.
(c) Being and Doing.
(d) Cooknig and Serving.

11. Which Russian author does Murray mention in Chapter 37?
(a) Bulgakov.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Breshnev.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

12. What is Babette's father's name?
(a) Dick Vernon
(b) Vernon Dickey
(c) Vernon Dickerson
(d) Dick Grayson

13. According to Murray, what are the two kinds of people in the world?
(a) Killers and diers.
(b) Killers and murderers.
(c) Liars and murderers.
(d) Babies and old people.

14. What is Orest's last name?
(a) Acquedor
(b) Mirador.
(c) Mercator.
(d) Equator.

15. What does the family eat when they go out for fast food?
(a) Hamburgers.
(b) Chicken parts.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Hotdogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Mr. Gray operate his "business"?

2. Which medical issue is Jack's doctor concerned with?

3. What is the name of the German book Jack sees at Howard's?

4. In Chapter 35, what is Babette wearing "almost all the time"?

5. What is the name of Murray's rival and fellow professor who died over vacation?

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