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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. When Steffie answers the phone, who wants to come over?
(a) The Sittenfelds.
(b) The Singers.
(c) The Silberts.
(d) The Stovers.

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

3. What does Babette like to drink when she comes from class?
(a) Iced Tea.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Seltzer.
(d) Tea.

4. Where has Bee been?
(a) Japan.
(b) The Phillipines.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) South Korea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the psychic live?

2. In what building is Jack's academic department?

3. Which family member avoids the crowd in Steffie's room?

4. What color does Jack use to describe the moon when he and Babette walk home from the Church?

5. According to Heinrich, what is the result when plastic furniture burns?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the mood of the family when they are shopping at the mall?

2. Why does Bee say that the people who crash landed went through a bad experience for nothing?

3. Why does the chancellor suggest that Jack should change his persona, and what does he suggest?

4. What is the conflict between Babette and Denise, vis-a-vis sugarless gum?

5. Describe the family lunch the Gladneys eat, in terms of who attended, what they ate and what the mood was.

6. Describe the student body of the College-on-the-Hill.

7. What is so shocking about Jack's trouble with German?

8. What does Babette look like?

9. What does Bee claim about the conflict between her mother and stepfather?

10. What is Babette's attitude toward parents watching television with their children?

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