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

2. To whom does this description apply: "people who look lost among the dazzling hedgerows" of the supermarket?
(a) Very short people.
(b) The eldery.
(c) Supermarket employees.
(d) The Gladney family.

3. What kind of dessert does the family eat when they go to the fast food restaurant?
(a) Brownies.
(b) Apple pie.
(c) Chocolate chip icecream.
(d) Ice cream.

4. Who accompanies Jack to the asylum?
(a) Babette.
(b) Wilder.
(c) Steffie.
(d) Heinrich.

5. According to Jack, how is Chakravarty's English?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Broken.
(c) Halting.
(d) Just OK.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who once confessed to Jack that they had a crush on Winnie Richards?

3. Which Russian author does Murray mention in Chapter 37?

4. Who was Jack's fourth wife?

5. What does the family eat when they go out for fast food?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Heinrich, toxic spills are not "the real issue." What does he tell his sisters and parents they should be worried of?

2. What happened to Cotsakis, Murray's rival in Elvis studies?

3. Why is Heinrich crouched outside on the roof at the beginning of Book 2?

4. Why is Denise concerned about Babette going running, and what does she do about it?

5. When Jack asks Babette for Mr. Gray's real name, why does she refuse to tell him?

6. What is the Law of Ruins Jack describes?

7. What is the condition Babette has, for which she is taking Dylar.

8. What causes the family to evacuate, eventually? What is the thing that convinces them?

9. How did the mock evacuation in Chapter 28 turn out?

10. What is Orest Mercator trying to do?

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