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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the video they watched in school, what happens when a rat is exposed to Nyodene D.?
(a) Urgent lumps.
(b) Instant rash.
(c) Rapid swelling.
(d) Sustained cancer.

2. According to Denise, what does the neighborhood family think their new dog "is"?
(a) A space alien.
(b) A chihuahua.
(c) A robot.
(d) A mongrel.

3. How did Murray's rival die?
(a) Plane crash.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Toxic exposure.

4. What is the name of the motel mentioned in Chapter 27?
(a) Buena Vista Motor Lodge.
(b) Motel 6.
(c) Grayson's Motel.
(d) Grayview Motel.

5. How old is Orest?
(a) 19.
(b) 13.
(c) 25.
(d) 14.

6. What magazine does Jack's doctor mention the latest issue of?
(a) The Lancet.
(b) The New England Journal of Medicine.
(c) American Mortician.
(d) The American Medical Journal.

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

8. Which character may end up flying to Mexico?
(a) Mr. Gray.
(b) Steffie.
(c) Denise.
(d) Jack.

9. According to Jack, how did Orest eat?
(a) Like a vaccuum cleaner.
(b) According to barbaric habits.
(c) According to aerodynamic principles.
(d) Like a starving man.

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

11. Who demands to know the real name of Mr. Gray?
(a) Babette.
(b) Denise.
(c) Jack.
(d) Heinrich.

12. What does the following description refer to: "the tablet was not chalky like aspirin and not exactly capsule-like either"?
(a) Dylodene Derivative.
(b) Dylar.
(c) Nylar.
(d) Nyodene D.

13. Which child does Jack find at the simulated evacuation?
(a) Denise.
(b) Steffie.
(c) Heinrich.
(d) Wilder.

14. What is the name of the German book Jack sees at Howard's?
(a) Die Bibel.
(b) Das Aegyptische Todtenbuch.
(c) Das Buch der Geschwister.
(d) Sein und Leben.

15. Where does the family eat their fast food?
(a) At home.
(b) At a picnic bench in the park.
(c) In the restaurant.
(d) In the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Murray, what are the two kinds of people in the world?

2. What religion does Orest's trainer practice?

3. Denise is preoccupied by her mother's use of (or lack of use of) what?

4. When Jack wakes up in the middle of the night in Chapter 33, which of his children is staring at him?

5. What is written on the green armband of the man who checks them in at the evacuation site?

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